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PARDOLI FADLI

(Cilacap, C. Java, 1971) Panen Raya-Flamboyan, 2009 Oil on canvas: 150 x 200 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Pardoli 09 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse SGD 3,500 – 5,000 USD 2,590 – 3,700

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GAMBIRANOM SUHADI

(Delanggu, 1928 - 1984) Still Life, 1974

Oil on canvas: 80 x 101 cm Signed and dated, lower right:Gambiranom S.1974 SGD 3,000 – 4,000 USD 2,220 – 2,960 10

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GERARD PIETER ADOLFS

(Semarang, 1899 – The Netherlands, 1968) Flamboyant Tree Oil on board: 40 x 50 cm Signed, lower right: Gp Adolfs SGD 6,000 – 8,000 USD 4,440 – 5,920 Born in Semarang, 1899. He once lived in Surabaya and made many paintings about the city. He traveled to many countries in Asia, Europe, and Africa, like Japan, Rome and Arab. He decided to spend the rest of his time in Holland until he died in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, in 1968.

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WILLEM VAN DER DOES

(Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1889 – 1966) Kapal Nelayan Oil on canvas laid on board: 33 x 40 cm Signed, lower left: W.V.D.Does SGD 3,500 – 5,000 USD 2,590 – 3,700

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(Palembang, South Sumatra, 1904 – The Hague, 1976) Kapal di Pelabuhan Oil on board: 48 x 68 cm Signed, lower right: L. Frits Ohl SGD 4,000 – 6,000 USD 2,960 – 4,440

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TRUBUS SUDARSONO (Yogyakarta, 1926 – 1966) Penari, 1960

Oil on canvas: 110 x 70 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Trubus S.1960 Provenance: Private collection, Jakarta SGD 18,000 - 25,000 USD 13,320 - 18,500

Born in 23 April 1926 in Wates, Yogyakarta. He only had a short formal education until elementary school. His amazing talent and skill was sharpened through learning time with Affandi and Sudjojono. During revolutionary time in Yogya, he joined Seniman Indonesia Muda and then Pelukis Rakyat lead by Hendra Gunawan. In 1948, he was arrested and jailed in Netherlands colonial government because he was considered involving with guerrilla activity. After released from prisoner, he taught at Akademi Seni Rupa Indonesia, Yogyakarta during 1950-1960. He was known as one of the strongest realism painter in Indonesia. He indeed closed with opposition and had been selected as Indonesia delegate in a goodwill journey to Chekoslovakia in 1954. Trubus was also a victim of opposition elimination in 1966. Trubus had mastery in capturing the dancing figure through expressive brush stroke that become his distinctive characteristic in painting. He tended to use secondary and tertiary colours that reflected his restless spirit.

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LEE MAN FONG

(Canton, China 1913 – Singapore 1988) Sembahyang, 1959 Pastel on paper: 58 x 41 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Mf. lee, Bali 1959 SGD 7,000 – 9,000 USD 5,180 – 6,660

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IRSAM

(b. Klaten, 1942) Gadis, 1992 Oil on canvas: 100 x 100 cm Signed and dated, lower middle: Irsam, 1992 Literature: Mikke Susanto, IRSAM Jejak - Jejak Dekoratif Published by PT Dwi Samapersada, 2013, pg. 99 SGD 3,000 - 5,000 USD 2,220 - 3,700

Born in Klaten, Central Java, 1942. He graduated from the Indonesian Fine Art Academy (ASRI) Yogyakarta. He had held his first exhibition in 1967 in Jakarta. He received an award from the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. In 1980 he also joined in the Contemporary Asian Art Exhibition in Fukuoka Art Museum Japan.

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ROEDYAT MARTADIREDJA (Bandung, 1932 – 2002) Bali Life, 1985

Oil on Canvas: 75 x 100 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Roedyat, Bali, 1985 SGD 4,000 - 6,000 USD 2,960 - 4,440 Born in Bandung, 1932. He first painting in 1948 and studied at the Bandung Institute of Technology. He performed his solo exhibition in Jakarta (1978) and was included in the East-West Center’s Art of Bali exhibition in Honolulu, Hawaii (1988). His works are unique, rich and colorful that creates a strong rhythm. His works are in private collections of European and the United States.

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Koeboe Sarawan Born in Malang, June 29, 1961. He graduated from Indonesian Academy of Arts in Yogyakarta in 1985.

Koeboe Sarawan spent his younger years learning Batik then he started to paint. Koeboe Sarawan’s great asset is his magnificent talent to portray visual reality in detail and realistic manner. He seriously capture the detail form but once he act humorously and critical. His works are represented in more attractive was a way with the exact choices of object. The themes revealed in his paintings were a projection of honesty that attracts viewers to learn more about the painter’s goal through his works.

His works are mostly categorized as surrealistic though actually they are more realistic in symbolic way.

His ideas are still dominated by his surroundings which represent his social experiences. The painting looks as if it was 3 dimensional, utilizing excellent realism techniques, so every details and perspective of the work seem very realistic.

Koeboe’s career journey is comprehended as his life’s journey. He has been drawing since kindergarten.

His beloved grandmother, Eyang Soelarmi Jaya Panatas, a loving and nurturing figure has been his painting inspiration especially when she passed away in 1994 at the age 97. His grandmother is regarded as his second mother in Koeboe’s life journey, certainly his first mother is the one who gave birth to him. Koeboe has experienced love and the desire to embrace one another since he was in his mother’s womb. The spirituality of his mother and grandmother was imparted to him. His painting contains certain religion that invites us to approach the spiritual, the inner sanctum. Through his painting he tries to make a dialog between spirits with the grandmother who once stood by him on this world, and who is now heading towards an eternal life. The character he present symbolized the life wisdom, the manifestation in spirit form, the manifestation of the spirit of wisdom that provides Koeboe with the strength to carry out a purposeful, everlasting journey.

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KOEBOE SARAWAN (Malang, 1961) Imaji Wayang, 2015

Oil on canvas: 200 x 200 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Koeboe, 2015 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the gallery signed by the artist SGD 70,000 – 90,000 USD 51,800 – 66,600

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ARIE SMIT

(Zaandam, the Netherlands, 1916 - Bali, 2016) Temple in Bali, 2009 Acrylic on canvas: 50 x 60 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Arie Smit 09 Signed, titled and dated This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the artist SGD 13,000 – 18,000 USD 9,620 – 13,320

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Born in Zaandam, the Netherlands, 1916. He was a student of the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam before working as lithographer for the Dutch Colonial Army in the Dutch Indies prior to the Second World War. He moved to Bali in 1956 to engage in full time painting and became an Indonesian Citizen, produced as well as taught painting at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). Many of his paintings depict the nature of his surrounding environment. He had several solo exhibitions in Bandung Institute of Technology, The Honolulu East West Center, and the Center of Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta. He received the “Dharma Kusuma” art awards from the local government of Bali.

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TENG NEE CHEONG (Singapore, 1951) Still Life

Pastel on paper: 50 x 65 cm Signed, lower right: Teng SGD 7,000 – 10,000 USD 5,180 – 7,400

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CAREL LODEWIJK DAKE, Jr

(Schaerbeek, 1886 – Jakarta, 1946) Pasar Oil on board: 52 x 83 cm Signed, lower right: CL. Dake SGD 3,500 – 5,000 USD 2,590 – 3,700

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ABDUL AZIZ

(Purwokerto, 1928 - Bali, 2002) Bali Girl (Hunger Strike), 1993 Oil on canvas: 45 x 40 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Abdul Aziz, Bali 1993 This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the artist wife Literature: Mary Northmore-Aziz, “ABDUL AZIZ - The Artist and His Art”, Published by Mary Northmore-Aziz 2005, Page: 225 SGD 8,000 - 9,000 USD 5,920 - 6,660 20

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Born in Padang, West Sumatra on 17 July 1973. He is a painter from Padang but now lives and works in Yogyarakta. He took his formal study at the School of Fine Art Institute (SMSR) Padang, graduated on 1993. He held his solo exhibition “Changes” at Gallery Semarang, Jakarta Art District (2011), “Cybernetic Blues” at Gallery CGartspace, Jakarta (2009). He participated in several group exhibition in Jakarta (2010 – 2012) and also in Art Stage Singapore (2010). He is the finalist of the Indonesian Art Award (2010).

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BESTRIZAL BESTA

(Padang, W. Sumatra, 1973) The Winner Takes All, 2009 Acrylic on canvas: 150 x 200 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Besta.2009 SGD 6,000 – 8,000 USD 4,440 – 5,920

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OTTO DJAYA

(Rangkas Bitung, West java, 1916 - 2002) Pesta Rakyat, 1998 Acrylic on canvas: 90 x 120 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Otto Djaya, 1998 SGD 3,000 - 5,000 USD 2,220 - 3,700

Born in Rangkas Bitung, Banten, West Java on October 6, 1916. During the Japanese colonialism in Indonesia, he received his army training for officer in the “Pembela Tanah Air” (Defenders of the country) in Bogor. During the Physical revolution, as a Major in the Indonesian Army, he took part in the Armed Struggle for the Independence of the Republic of Indonesia. After the proclamation, Otto had an opportunity to study at the “Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten” in Amsterdam and at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Amsterdam.

He also had an opportunity of joining the study-tour of the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy and Swiss.

Otto was a Vice Chairman of the Art Section of the Cultural Centre in Jakarta. He joined in the “Exposition le Grand Prix de Peinture en Monaco” in Monte Carlo and in Biennial Exhibition in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Besides his oneman exhibitions in Jakarta, Otto often took part in the joint exhibitions in Jakarta and Melbourne, Australia.

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TEW NAI TONG

(Klang, Selangor, 1936) Birds and Song Oil on canvas: 55 x 45 cm Signed, lower left: NaiTong SGD 4,000 – 6,000 USD 2,960 – 4,440 Born in Klang, Selangor, 1936. Tew Nai Tong has often been described as the “last of the Nanyang Men’, in reference to the important Nanyang (South Seas) art movement. A school of painting that was an influential element in the development of mainstream Malaysian post-independence art.

In the late 1950, he had studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts under Georgette Chen, Chen Wen Hsi (Chinese brush painting) and Koh Chien Tee (oils, watercolours and woodcarving) and later at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. His work combines the styles of both schools, successfully crossing the boundaries of Expressionist Realism and abstraction.

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RANDY SOLON (Philippines, 1971) Raising Adam, 2009

Oil on canvas: 183 x 184 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Solon '09 SGD 3,000 - 5,000 USD 2,220 - 3,700 Randy 'Andoi' Solon holds two degrees in the visual arts: a Bachelor of Fine Arts, major in Painting, at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, and a Certificate in Advertising from the Philippines Women's University in Manila. Solon is the recipient of numerous awards from national art competitions. He was the Grand Prize winner in the 2006-2007 PLDT-PDC Telephone Directory Cover 20th Visual Art National Competition for the oil on canvas work entitled Kabataan, Iguhit mo ang Bukas, Kulayan mo ang Pag-asa. He was a three time Finalist in the 38th, 39th and 40th Shell National Student Painting Competition in 2005, 2006 and 2007 (oil/acrylic categories) and a semifinalist in the oil/acrylic category of the Metrobank Foundation National Competition in 2004, 2005 and 2006. His works have featured in major SE Asian auctions.

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REYNOLD DE LA CRUZ (b. Philippines, 1974) Balancing, 2007

Oil on canvas: 122 x 92 cm Signed and dated, lower right in Thai SGD 3,000 - 5,000 USD 2,220 - 3,700

Reynold Dela Cruz is a multi-awarded self-taught artist.

Reynold has been awarded the Honourable Mentions for the Prestigious Art Awards in 1995, 1997, and 2001, and in 1998, he was the Grand Prize Winner of the competition. Reynold was also the Honourable Mention for the Vermont Asian Freeman Artist Fellowship USA in 2004 and 2007. Reynold has held solo exhibitions in Utterly Gallery and Forth Gallery in Singapore, Ortigas Foundation in Pasig City, Boston Gallery in Quezon City, Art Verite Gallery in Taguig City and Nineveh Art Gallery in Boracay and he has participated in group exhibitions at the Ayala Museum, Philippines, and the Jorge B. Vargas Museum, Philippines.

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Agung Mangu Putra Mangu Putra was born in Sangeh, Bali, on May 11, 1963. He graduated from the faculty of Art and Design at the Indonesian Arts Institute (ISI), Yogyakarta majoring Visual Communication Design (1990). His first exhibition was in Dewata Gallery (1987) at Taman Budaya Denpasar.

Being a designer did not satisfy him as an artist then he decided to engage in full time painting in 1998. Since his first solo exhibition in Ubud (1990) his name was considered as valuable painter in Indonesia.

He held his solo exhibition at National Gallery, “Teater Rakyat”, Jakarta, 2010; “Silent Word”, Gajah Gallery, Singapore (2008), Mandala, Bidadari, Ubud-Bali (2007), “Belief, Rupa Gallery”, Surabaya (2005),etc. He also joined in several group exhibitions in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Bali and other country. He received awards as the Best in Design Arts (during the 4th and 6th anniversary of ISI, as the finalist of Philip Morris Award in 1994 and Indofood Art Award 2002, Second Place, Jakarta.

Mangu seems to put nature as an endless source of his inspiration. The works he produces are from historical explorations depict a dialogue between his thoughts and feelings towards what he read and observed during his experiment. His paintings are not meant to inform, but rather to share his feelings and thoughts through art. He observed the historical events through photographs which later he reimagined those events and translated to his canvas.

At the bottom of a lush green river valley lies one of Bali’s oldest and largest ancient monuments - Pura Gunung Kawi - an 11th-century temple and funerary complex in Tampaksiring north east of Ubud in Bali, Indonesia. It comprises 10 rock-cut candi (shrines) that are carved into some 7-metre-high (23 ft) sheltered niches of the sheer cliff face. These funeral monuments are thought to be dedicated to King Anak Wungsu of the Udayana dynasty and his favourite queens. On the east side there are five temples that are dedicated, according to one theory, to King Udayana, his queen Mahendradatta, and their sons Airlanga, Anak Wungsu, and Marakata. The temples on the west side are dedicated, according to the same theory, to the king’s minor queens or concubines.

As you wander between monuments, temples, offerings, streams and fountains, you can’t help but feel a certain ancient majesty here. Here, Mangu depicts majestic, timeless and all powerful, yet quietly dormant atmosphere. His feel for colors is always impressive: breathtaking blues for his landscapes, black and whites bonded with a philosophical theme or just translucent colors that captivate the viewers’ attention.

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AGUNG MANGU PUTRA (Sangeh, Bali, 1963) Pura Gunung Kawi, 2006

Acrylic on canvas: 165 x 215 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Mangu Putra, 2006 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the artist SGD 30,000 – 50,000 USD 22,200 – 37,000

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JOHN VAN DER STERREN (Sukabumi, 1938) Landscape on The Way to Kintamani, Bali, 1994

Oil on canvas: 50 x 60 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Van Der Sterren’94 Signed and titled on the reverse SGD 2,500 – 3,500 USD 1,850 – 2,590

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SOH SIEW KIAT

(b. Singapore, 1962) Golden Showers, 1991 Watercolor on Paper: 66.5 x 56.5 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Siew Kiat 91 SGD 1,000 – 2,000 USD 740 – 1,480

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THOMAS YEO (Singapore, 1936) Padi Field Beyond

Mixed media on paper: 60,2 x 78 cm Signed, lower right: Tyeo SGD 2,000 - 4,000 USD 1,480 - 2,960 26

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WILLEM VAN DER DOES

(Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1889 – 1966) Workers in The Field Oil on board: 45 x 60 cm Signed, lower right: W. V. D Does SGD 8,000 – 9,000 USD 5,920 – 6,660 Born in Rotterdam, 20 April 1889. He came to Indonesia ca. 1918 as a civil servant to survey the country. In this function he traveled all over the archipelago. The artist participated in several group exhibitions in Jakarta, Medan and Surabaya between 1918 and1939. He returned to the Netherlands in 1946, where he settled in Zeist. Painter, Illustrator and draughtsman of harbor scenes, City views, and landscapes, in an accurate impressionistic style.He died in Zeist, the Netherlands, February 3, 1966.

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TENG NEE CHEONG (Singapore, 1951) Flower Composition

Mixed Media on canvas: 92 x 61 cm Signed, middle right SGD 9,000 – 12,000 USD 6,660 – 8,880

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Born 1951 in Singapore. Teng Nee Cheong studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore.

Teng Nee-Cheong studied at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. He is inspired by the secessionist paintings of Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862-1918). Teng's works are bold in color and composition but have gentle, lyrical themes. He creates endless combinations with a few motifs, especially flowers, textile patterns, and unique positions of figures. He has a strong sense of design and very unique use color. Awards: Ministry of Culture special award (Singapore, 1978), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Alumni Association creative award (Singapore, 1982), Singapore Art Society Tan Tze Chor Art Award (1991), Phillip Morris Group (ASEAN, 1993, 1995, 1996). Collections: National Museum Art Gallery (Singapore), Shenn's Fine Art Gallery (Singapore). Exhibitions: National Museum Art Gallery (Singapore, 1980, 1984, 1991), Le Grand Palais (Paris, France, 1987), Hongkong Arts Centre (1998), New York Art Expo (U.S.A., 1989), ASEAN Traveling Exhibitions (1989), Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam, Holland, 1998), Shenn's Fine Art Gallery (Singapore, 1992) Centre for Strategic and International Studies (Jakarta, Indonesia, 1996). His works was exhibited in Holland, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Paris, Singapore and United States. He was given the Ministry of Culture Special Award (1978), Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Alumni Association Creative Award (1982), Singapore Art Society Tan Tze Chor Art Award (1991) and Phillip Morris Group (ASEAN, 1993/95/96). His works are among the collections of the National Museum Art Gallery ( Singapore), Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Singapore) and Neka Museum (Bali).

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JUMALDI ALFI

(Lintau, West Sumatra, 1973) Love, 1997 Oil on canvas: 100 x 100 cm Signed and dated, lower middle: Alfi, 1997 Signed and titled on the reverse SGD 4,000 - 6,000 USD 2,960 - 4,440

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IBRAHIM

(Bukittinggi, 1975) Abstract, 2016 Acrylic, spidol on canvas: 145 x 200 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Ibrahim, 2016 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse SGD 2,000 – 3,000 USD 1,480 – 2,220

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Djoko Pekik for the Festival of Indonesia in USA. Since then, he had held numerous solo and group exhibitions in various parts of Indonesia and overseas. “The Art Gallery of Djoko Pekik” is owned by the artist and showcases many of his own collection.

Djoko Pekik’s work is unique in the painting world of Indonesia in the 1980s, both in regards to subject matter as well as to style.

Djoko Pekik paints what moves him, he says, and what moves him is the plight of those millions of Indonesians who are living under difficult circumstances, in regions infertile from century-old deforestation, erosion and overpopulation, where work other than farming is scarce and the livelihood the land can offer more than meager. People and landscapes are Djoko Pekik’s major themes— depicted in bleak tones dominated by moss-green, black, ocher and cream, enlivened here and there by a deep red or blue. Djoko Pekik’s paintings are strong and simple: Simple figures in strong outlines set in simple, strong compositions. His colors are low tone and earthy; and like the repeated stripes in the cloth, his figures occur mostly in groups, in a choreographed repetition of rhythmic movement. The individual is not the focus of Djoko Pekik’s work like shown in the present lot.

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DJOKO PEKIK

(Grobogan, 1938) Pengamen Tayub, 2008 Oil on canvas: 110 x 140 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Djoko Pekik, 15 Okt 2008 This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the artist SGD 25,000 - 35,000 USD 18,500 - 25,900

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GERARD PIETER ADOLFS

(Semarang, 1899 – The Netherlands, 1968) Indonesian Landscape, c. 1924 Oil on plywood: 27 x 44 cm Signed, lower right: GP Adolfs Literature: Eveline Borntraeger-Stroll/Gianni Orsini Gerard Pieter Adolfs, The Painter of Java and Bali, Published by Pictures Publisher, The Netherlands, pg. 377 SGD 3,500 – 6,000 USD 2,590 – 4,440

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LUCIEN FRITS OHL

(Palembang, South Sumatra, 1904 – The Hague, 1976) Harvest Oil on board: 58 x 78 cm Signed, lower right SGD 5,000 – 8,000 USD 3,700 – 5,920

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CHEN WEN HSI

(b. 1906, Baigong Village, Guangdong, China - d. 1992) Two Chicks Chinese ink on rice paper: 38 x 46.5 cm Signed and sealed: top right Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist SGD 10,000 – 15,000 USD 7,400 – 11,100

Born in 1906, Guangdong (China). Wen Hsi was an artist, an academician and a gallerist. He studied art at the Shanghai College of Art in 1928. Wen Hsi settled down in Singapore at 1948 and became an art teacher at The Chinese High School and taught there from 1949 to 1968, concurrently teaching art at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts from 1951 to 1959. As a passionate art educator he had greatly influenced many of Singapore’s early Chinese artists. Wen Hsi was a great observant of nature. Almost everything can be the master’s inspiration to create exciting work namely, landscapes, human figures and animals.

Like many of Singapore’s first-generation artists, Chen Wen Hsi was part of the “Nanyang school” — a style combining Chinese traditional ink painting with Southeast Asian flavor. Chen’s most sought-after paintings are his gibbon works, cranes, squirrels, ducks, chicken, and also sparrows. As an artist, he was never bound by tradition of medium and was versatile in both Chinese and Western art.

The present lot was acquired directly from the artist (newspaper clips) and are examples of his profound ability to capture the “mood” and “spirit” of his environment, skillfully executed with great spontaneity through deft brush and finger strokes. It showcase the artist’s ability to harmonise Chinese art techniques on distinct subjects commonly encountered in Singapore.

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UGO UNTORO (Purbalingga, 1970) Abstrak Biru, 1996

Oil on canvas: 140 x 90 cm Signed and dated, upper left: Ugo 96 SGD 6,000 - 8,000 USD 4,440 - 5,920 Born in Purbalingga, Central Java, 1970. He studied at the Indonesian Institute of Art (ISI), Yogyakarta. He held his solo exhibitions at Cemeti Ctontemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta (1996, 1998), Kedai Kebun Gallery, Yogyakarta (1999), Essence Art Gallery, Jakarta (2000) and Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta (2002). He participated in several group exhibitions at Purna Budaya Yogyakarta, Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta (1997), Galeria Jangva, Helsinki, Finland (1998),T Singapore, National Gallery, Jakarta, Cemeti Art House, Bali, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, Centrum van Beeldende Kunst, Dordrecht, The Netherlands (1999), Nadi Gallery, Jakarta (2000, 2001, 2003), etc.

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KHOO SUI HOE

(b. Kedah, Malaysia, 1939) Coo-coo Sunrise, 2006 Oil on canvas: 76 x 96 cm Signed, lower right: Sui Hoe SGD 8,000 - 15,000 USD 5,920 - 11,100

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I GEDE MAHENDRAYASA (Singaraja, Bali, 1967) Plototan, 2008

Acrylic on canvas with easel: 230 x 150 cm Signed, titled and dated on the reverse SGD 4,500 – 6,000 USD 3,330 – 4,440

Mahendrayasa was born in Singaraja, Bali on March 6, 1967. He studied at Denpasar Art Institute Bali. He has participated in several group among other “Democracy in Visual Expression,” (2000), the 8 Anniversary of Denpasar, Bali, “Coution!!! There is A Taxu Ceremony,” Klinik Seni (Art Clinic) Taxu, Denpasar (2003), “CP Open Biennale,” National Gallery, Jakarta (2003), “Cooking & History,” Cemeti Art House, Jogjakarta (2004), Tamarin… in pursuit of identity, Nava Galery, Denpasar Bali (2004), Membaca Realisme […reading Realism], Nava Gallery, Denpasar Bali (2005), CP Biennale 2005 “Urban/Culture,” Museum Bank Indonesia, Jakarta (2005), Taxu art clinic 2006 at cp artspace Jakarta (2006) and Langgeng Contemparary Art Festival 2006, Langgeng Gallery, Magelang.

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Willem Gerard Hofker Born in the city of The Hague in 1902, Willem Gerard Hofker applied for the local Academy of Fine Arts at the age of 15. Shortly after that, he moved to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam. He won second prize at the Prix de Rome in 1924. and became a well-known artist in the Netherlands during the 1930s. Hofker is mostly known for the body of work he made in Bali, where he and his wife Maria lived from 1938 until 1943. Having gone through the horror of war and Japanese camps, Willem and Maria Hofker returned to the Netherlands in 1946.

The official portraits he made of queens Wilhelmina and Juliana helped to quickly regain his reputation as a portraittist. Although Hofker had a remarkable talent to capture the character of the sitter, it was merely -a way to earn a living. He was not very sociable, and often 'hid' behind his easle. The models he really loved were tireless and patient; Nature and Architecture, both in the Netherlands and abroad. The upcoming two lots, made in two consecutive years, epitomize these beloved themes.

In 1936, Willem Hofker was invited by the Batavia headquarters Of the KPM (Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij) to make. and personally deliver a portrait of the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina. Apart from that, he was asked to combine the portrait presentation in Batavia with a sojourn through the Dutch East Indies, to draw documentary impressions of the colony. These drawings were to be sent to Holland, enabling KPM to reproduce them for marketing purposes. Hofker initially did not have the anthropologic interest that his artist colleagues W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp, Watter Spies, Rudolf Bonnet and Miguel Covarrubias had displayed, but he was well aware that he Should draw and describe the culture, people and architecture of the Dutch East Indies in detail for the KPM; consequently, Willem and his wife Maria prepared well for their journey in 1938. picking up some Malay words and sentences, and reading books by Karl With, Gregor Krause, and Miguel Covarrubias.

Hofker needed to regain his powerful, decisive touch. Reading his letters and diaries, he was inspired to draw and paint numerous Balinese temples, palaces, and bales although most of them have not been traced (yet). After 4 months in Bali, Hofker had already produced 85 drawings and 15 oils.

I feel so at home here. It is strange that all these beautiful things are still made here every day. Sometimes one is reminded of the Italian Renaissance or Roman reliefs of animals used as decorations in cathedrals, on capitols and in other places; this thousand year-oid culture has achieved the same high standard of visual imagery. (Willem Hofker, July 1, 1938, in: Hofker/Gianni Orsini, Willem Gerard Hofker, Uitgeverij de Kunst, 2013* p. 28) The split gate (or candi bentar) we see in the painting, indeed reminds us of the way Renaissance architects like Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) coded the early Renaissance architecture; structural elements (the red brick in the split gate) are coded in a different colour from ornaments (the grey. decoratively sculpted elements on the top and sides of the split gate).

A candi bentar marks the entrance into the outer sanctum of the Sukawati temple. A paraduksa or kori, positioned behind the candi bentar, marks the entrance to the inner sanctum, A paraduksa is not split, but closed with a stepped crown on top. It is often consisting of a main paraduksa or kori agung, with a wooden entrance door. only to be used by priests and gods, and two side gates. to be used by casual visitors. ` The painting. now in the splendid condition Hofker 'intended still exudes the grandeur of the royal family of Sukawati. It is remarkable how Hofker depicted the candi bentar, and did not create more depth by also painting the paraduksa behind it. Perhaps it is a conscious symbol of Hofker's mindful spirit -a modest man, who had just arrived in Bali, and was awestruck by an ancient culture- not having entered the main sanctum of Bali just yet.

Gianni Orsini, October 2017

The Candi Bentar is situated only 20 km from where Hofker was living at the time, and is in fact a double guarded entrance gate to Kori Agung, a second gate with a closed door in the middle that is made of red brick. It is slightly visible behind the tree branches on the right of the painting. With a few red brushstrokes, hofker marked the spot between green of the sketchy trees. The whole complex is located on the current Jalan Raya Sukawati and is part of Puri Ageng, the residence of the royal family of Sukawati.

Seline Hofker, May 2017

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WILLEM GERARD HOFKER

(Amsterdam, 1902 – 1981) Candi Bentar temple, Sukawati Bali, 1938 Oil on canvas: 28 x 39 cm Signed and dated, lower left: WG. Hofker.Soekawati, 1938

The present lot probably the first oil painting Hofker produced in Bali. It clearly shows he was out of practice, which is easily explained: in the preceding months, during the voyage to the Indies and his stay in Java, he was almost entirely unable to paint. His letters and journals suggest that he made quite a number of drawings and paintings of Balinese temples and palaces, but unfortunately few seems to have survived.

Provenance: A present by the artist to the Dutch fleet pastor in 1952, and thence by descent in the same family.

Literature: Willem Gerard Hofker (1902-1981), by S. Hofker & G. Orsini, Publisher De Kunst, 2013, pg. 170 ill. 224 and on p.

230 ill. 353 in the Oeuvre catalogue of Balinese oil painting and watercolours.

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RANDY SOLON

(Philippines, 1971) Garden of The Good and Right, 2016 Oil and acrylic on canvas: 122 x 152 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Solon 16 This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the artist SGD 3,000 – 5,000 USD 2,220 – 3,700

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(Malang, East Jave, 1970) Above Us, 2009 Mixed media on cloth laid on canvas: 150 x 200 cm Signed and dated, lower right: 16370.Gatot P.2009 SGD 2,500 – 3,500 USD 1,850 – 2,590

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YOON BYUNG ROCK

(Youngju, Gyeongbuk , 1968)National Geographic #1, 2009 Oil on Korean paper wood: 121 x 159 cm SGD 20,000 - 30,000 USD 14,800 - 22,200 Born in Youngju, Gyeongbuk, 1968. He graduated from Graduated from Fine Art Dept, Kyeungbook University, Daegu (1994), and Graduate Course at same Dept, University (2003). He held his first solo exhibition in LEEAHN GALLERY, Changwon (2009), Rho gallery, Seoul (2007), Song-A Dang Gallery, Daegu (KIAF, COEX, Seoul) (2006), Kcaf 5th Korea Contemporary Art, Seoul Art Center, Seoul Osaka Artfair, Osaka ATC Hall, Osaka (2005), MANIF 0-04 Seoul International Art fair, Seoul Art Center, Seoul Song-A Dang Gallery, Daegu (2004). He was participated in several group exhibition such as, Korea galleries art fair, BEXCO, Busan (2008), “ART & SYNESTHESIA”, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (2009),13 Young Artists: Above Daily Life”, Rho gallery, Seoul (2009), The still: logical conversation’, gallery Hyundai, Seoul (2009), Small is beautiful’, leehwaik gallery, Seoul (2009), “Art Love”, Insa Art center, Seoul (2008), Singapore Art fair, Sentec, Singapore (2008), Busan Lotte Art fair, Lotte Department store, Busan (2007), “Apple” Yemac gallery, Seoul (2007), “The best of the best 20” Insa Art center , Seoul (2007). Etc. He have been received award “The First Prize in the 18th Grand Exhibition of Daegu Art”, Daegu Culture & Art Center, Daegu (1998), Gong-san Art Festival, Dong-A Gallery, Seoul (1994), “The Special Prize in the 12th Grand Art Exhibition of Korea, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon (1993).

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(Singapore, 1943) Run, 1987

(Purbalingga, 1970) Corat-Coret no. 4, 2004

TANG DA WU

UGO UNTORO

Watercolor and Ink on paper: 78 x 56 cm Signed and dated, lower right: DawuTang 87 Titled , lower left : Run

Mixed media on canvas: 73 x 57 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Ugo 04 Signed and titled on reverse

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ABDUL DJALIL “A.D.” PIROUS (Meulaboh, Aceh, 1932) Tumbuh, 1985

Mixed media on canvas: 40 X 45 cm Signed and dated, lower middle: AD. Pirous 85 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse SGD 2,500 - 3,500 USD 1,850 - 2,590

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SAMSUL ARIFIN

(Malang, East Java, 1979) Innocence, 2007 Acrylic on canvas: 150 x 100 Signed and dated, lower right: Samsul Arifin 2007 SGD 9,000 – 15,000 USD 6,660 – 11,100 Born in Malang, East Java, 1979, Samsul Arifin’s story is a story of a restless soul. He works on his visual creations involving many things and objects.

Samsul had always been very much interested in art. His journey in the art world, however, had not been smooth. He started out in Malang, but the town could not facilitate his artistic aspirations and idealism. Eventually he moved to Yogyakarta to study art at the SMSR (the Secondary School for Visual Arts). Now he continues his study at the department of painting of ISI, Yogyakarta.

Objects of still life have become recent theme used by young contemporary painters. They sometimes only represent common object that have been familiar with us but never put into account. Objects like eraser or pencil perhaps do not have deep meaning to a person. On the contrary, for Samsul, this object represents what he feels and thinks. They symbolize how modern people get advantage from using very simple and common thing like eraser and pencil.

He keeps questioning about the freedom and the limitation of an artist, about art that is ideally free from any tendency. Samsul’s works generally tells of morality and ethics, which he continually questions. As one of the artists who begin their career in the year 2000, like his predecessors, Samsul practices the freedom of choosing his artistic media.

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Siew Hock Meng Born in Johor, Malaysia, 1942. He graduated from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore (1961). He is widely known for his oil and pastel paintings. His subject center on life studies, scenes and landscapes done in Singapore and the region. He Siew Hock Meng creates works that are imaginative and thought-provoking, always challenging the viewers to dig deeper into his artistic motivations. His keen observations and personal reflections are especially poignant in the many thoughtful and contemplative landscapes of Singapore and other places he has visited. Despite his low profile and infrequent exposure, Siew’s work is highly regarded in the art circle and is much sought after in the region.

His fame as a portrait painter gradually grew and spread in the region especially in Taiwan where he often spent months painting on commission. Not content to restrict himself to portraiture, Siew began to explore a wider range of subjects and themes such as human figures and life and culture of places like Bali, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Myanmar and Cambodia.

Apart from his fascination for human forms, vibrant tropical colours and artistic and cultural diversity of the region, he often shows a deeper concern for the social, cultural and environmental realities that people in the region have to face.

Awards: Awarded the National Day Medal for Fine Arts in 1971.

Awarded the Award for Visual Arts Creation, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Alumni Association Singapore in 1981 and 1984.

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SIEW HOCK MENG (Malaysia, 1942) Dialogue

Oil on canvas: 81 x 122 cm SGD 30,000 - 35,000 USD 22,200 - 25,900

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SUDARSO

(Purwokerto, 1914 - 2006) Seated Lady, 2000 Oil on canvas: 115 x 80 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Sudarso, 2000 SGD 2,000 – 3,000 USD 1,480 – 2,220 Born in Purwokerto, Central Java, 1914. Affandi was his customer when he was an egg and milk seller. From that time he was interested in painting and learnt under Affandi as well as young painters such as Barli, Wahdi, and Hendra. He became a teacher at the Indonesian Fine Arts Academy (ASRI), Yogyakarta. He had participated in numerous exhibitions and active in many painters organizations. Now he lives in Sidoarjo, Surabaya.

Solo Exhibition, 1961 to 1969. And he was participated in group exhibition “19 Indonesian Painter” in Singapore and Malaysia, 1967. And Reunion exhibition painter “Angakatan 45 Bandung” in Bandung,1975.

Exhibition of Fine Art “Membaca Dunia Widayat” at Museum H.Widayat, Mungkid, Magelang, 2004.

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LIM WASIM

(Garut, West Java, 1929 – Jakarta, 2004) Woman with Offering, 1994 Oil on canvas: 90 x 60 cm Signed, lower left: L. Wasim Signed and dated on the reverse SGD 10,000 – 15,000 USD 7,400 – 11,100 Born in Bandung, West Java 1929. He learned painting with Kok Tekkang at Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan. After, he learnt painting from Sudjana Kerton and Mochtar Apin. He graduated from China Institute of Fine Art in 1956and then assigned to teach at Xian An Institute until 1959. He participated in a joint exhibition in Bandung and many other exhibitions since then. He was appointed as a Presidential Palace painter in 1961 and awarded the gold medal Golden Centaur from International Parliament, USA. His solo exhibition was held in 2003.

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TRUBUS SUDARSONO (Yogyakarta, 1926 – 1966) Srimpi Dancer, 1976

Oil on canvas: 100 x 72 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Trubus 76 SGD 11,000 – 13,000 USD 8,140 – 9,620

Born in Yogyakarta, 1926. A member of Seniman Indonesia Muda (Young Indonesian Artists) and Pelukis Rakyat (People’s Painters), Yogyakarta, he was a self-taught practitioner who honed his skills in the amateur art associations that flourished during and after the Japanese occupation. Trubus was taught by both Affandi and Hendra Gunawan and he also studied the paintings of the old and modern masters through prints and lithographs, as well as the works of artists in Indonesia such as Antonio Blanco, Romualdo Locatelli and Basoeki Abdullah. His works are represented in the Jakarta Art Gallery and other museums in Indonesia.

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GALAM ZULKIFLI

(Sumbawa, Nusa Tenggara 1971) Seri Abstrak, 1998 Mixed media on canvas: 140 x 100 cm Signed and dated, lower middle: Galam98 SGD 6,000 – 9,000 USD 4,440 – 6,660 Born in Sumbawa, Nusa Tenggara on 14 January 1971.

He studied Fine Art at the Teacher’s Training Collage in Yogyakarta 1991. He was awarded as the five best in the Philip Morris Indonesia Art Awards 1999 and five best in the Philip Morris ASEAN Art Awards 2003. He now lives and works in Yogyakarta.

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UMI DAHLAN

(Cirebon, 1942 – Bandung, 2009) Bongkahan Emas Pada Bidang Coklat, 1990 Oil on canvas: 50 x 50 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Umi D’90 SGD 2,500 – 3,500 USD 1,850 – 2,590 Born in Cirebon1942. She studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). After graduating in 1968, she became a lecturer there in 1969. Umi later went on to study at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 1977 to 1979. The Artist has participated in many group exhibitions in Indonesia and Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Jordan, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark and Cape Town in South Africa, including Festival pf Indonesia in America Touring exhibition in 1990 to 1991, and she has held several solo exhibitions at Taman Ismail Marzuki art Centre Jakarta in 1977 and 1980, Gallery in Bandung in 1990, and Andy’s Gallery in Jakarta in 2000. She was guided from the painter, Achmad Sadali that greatly influenced her works.

Most of her works were deeply rooted in religion and spiritually. She died in Bandung 1 Januari 2009.

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JUMALDI ALFI

(Lintau, West Sumatra, 1973) Seri: Ingatan (Number 09064), 2006 Acrylic on canvas: 145 x 150 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Alfi.2006 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse SGD 6,000 – 8,000 USD 4,440 – 5,920 Born in Lintau, West Sumatra, 1973. He graduated from Fine rt High School and Faculty of Fine Art, Indonesia Institute of Art (ISI) Yogyakarta. In 1998 he was awarded the best painting at Faculty of Fine Art, ISI Yogakarta. He was a member of Jendela Group and had participated in some exhibitions in Yogyakarta in 1997, and the rom the Window at the Bali Padma Hotel, Bali in 1999.

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Adrien Jean Le Mayeur De Merpres Born in Brussels (Belgium), on 9 February 1880, in the nobility and linked with the Belgium royal family, he was the son of a painter. Adrien was very keen on becoming a painter himself, but his father insisted that he should complete his studies first. He graduated as a civil engineer (architect), but soon after devoted himself to painting. Le Mayeur’s works were executed with free-flowing and bold, strong strokes, in bright and gay colours. His works, be they sketches done in light colours or bright-coloured oil paints, showed that they were inspired by the brilliant and clear tropical sunlight. His subjects of paintings are Belgian Landscapes, Scenes of Asia and Africa, Balinese Genre, Figures and Nudes. He married with the famous Legong Dancer, Ni Nyoman Pollok, who was his best-known model and settled in Bali in 1932. His works shows effective use of light and shadow in bright colors. He donated his house and his studio in Sanur, Bali, to the Indonesian Government which is now known the Le Mayeur Museum.

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ADRIEN JEAN LE MAYEUR DE MERPRES (Brussel, 1880 – 1958) Two Balinese Women

Mixed media on paper: 57 x 38 cm Sigend, lower right: J. Le Mayeur Provenance: Anonymous Sale, April 2016 Sotheby’s, HongKong SGD 30,000 – 40,000 USD 22,200 – 29,600

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SIEW HOCK MENG (Malaysia, 1942) Sleeping Nude, 1986

Oil on canvas: 60 x 76 cm Signed and Dated, lower left : Siew Meng '86 SGD 10,000 - 15,000 USD 7,400 - 11,100

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LIM WASIM

(Garut, West Java, 1929 – Jakarta, 2004) Memintal, 2002 Oil on canvas: 112 x 81 cm Signed and dated, lower right: L. Wasim02 Signed and dated on the reverse SGD 10,000 - 15,000 USD 7,400 - 11,100 053

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(Malaysia, 1957) Bali Dance #8, 2007

Acrylic on Canvas: 150 x 120 cm Signed, lower right: Siak Goon Provenance: Acquired directly from the Artist SGD 8,000 – 10,000 USD 5,920 – 7,400

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WIRE TUAZON

(Angono, Rizal, Philippines, 1973) The Built Shadow, 2007 Acrylic on canvas: 122 x 122 cm SGD 2,000 – 4,000 USD 1,480 – 2,960

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ARKIV VILMANSA

(Bandung, West Java, 1979) Dragon, 2011 Acrylic and ink on canvas: 100 x 100 cm Signed and Dated SGD 1,200 – 2,000 USD 890 – 1,480

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TAJUDDIN ISMAIL, DATO (Negeri Sembilan, 1949) Rentak Alam 2, 2015

Mixed media on paper: 76 x 66,5 cm Signed, titled and dated, lower right: Taj Rentak Alam 2015 SGD 1,500 – 2,000 USD 1,110 – 1,480

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057 POPO ISKANDAR (b. Garut, Indonesia 1927 – 2000) Full Moon, 1989 Oil on canvas: 148.5 x 138.5 cm Signed, lower right: Popo 89 SGD 15,000 - 20,000 USD 11,100 - 14,800

Popo Iskandar graduated from the University of Indonesian and Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). Popo Iskandar started painting in 1944, and is known not just as an artist, but an art observer and writer as well. Popo Iskandar has participated in many international exhibitions and in 1980, he was received an award from the Indonesian government for his contribution to arts.

Another distinctly unique subject of Popo Iskandar’s paintings besides his rendition of the feline, are that of his roosters. Popo began the study of this subject in 1974 and observed that the rooster experienced several steps of expression, much the same as the five steps for the cat. Popo was inspired by the rooster as it was an object close to his surroundings and often overlooked by many. For Popo’s depiction of the rooster, he looked to another traditional Indonesian culture, Wayang Kulit, or shadow play. The artistic qualities of Wayang Kulit enabled Popo’s roosters to reflect a special artistic and esthetic manifestation as the rooster prepares to take off and dart out of the way. Popo’s use of minimal colours is not due to the lack of tools or materials, but rather his concept reflecting his intellectuality and mastery of the subject matter.

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Richard Winkler Richard Winkler was born in Norrkoping, Sweden, 1969. He studied arts at the Nyckelviken School of art which later continued his study at the Beckmans School of Design. He was interested in exploring human body and anatomy which he put into canvases in exaggerated figures. In the period of 1994-1995, he traveled to several cities in Europe to deepen his visual arts. His works have been exhibited in Asia as well as European countries.

As one of the foreign artists who visualized Bali, Richard Winkler continues the romantic tradition of painting on the island. Winkler was very interested in the human body and anatomy which he put into canvases in exaggerated figures. In the period of 1994-1995, he traveled to several cities in Europe to deepen his visual arts. In 1997, he moved to Bali and creates paintings inspired by the place.

Besides painting human figures, he also interested in painting plants of the tropical forest. Plants in most of his paintings are a direct representation or abstraction of fertility of the real tropical plants and a pattern that enrich and strengthen the views of his works. In the present lot, Winkler use of the bright color, motif, texture and light technique made a beautiful combination on the painting.

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RICHARD WINKLER (Norrkoping, 1969) Resting, 2005

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PUTU SUTAWIJAYA (Bali, 1971) Untitled, 2005

Mixed media on canvas: 120 x 140 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Putu Sutawijaya 05 SGD 10,000 – 13,000 USD 7,400 – 9,620 Born in Bali, 1971. He studied at Sekolah Tinggi Seni Rupa Denpasar (STSR), Bali and continued his study to Indonesia Institute of Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta.

He graduated from ISI in 1997. He had his solo exhibitions in Yogyakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong and Jakarta. He also participated in numerous group exhibitions since 1990 in Bali, Yogyakarta, Hong Kong, etc. He was awarded Best Watercolor and Sketch from ISI Yogyakarta (1991) and Best Painting from ISI Yogyakarta, Top Ten Paintings (1999) and Lempad Price from Sanggar Dewata Indonesia in 2000.

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AGUS TBR

(Pacitan, East Java, 1979) Everybody Changing, 2007 Acrylic on canvas: 180 x 180 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Agus TBR07 SGD 4,500 – 6,000 USD 3,330 – 4,440 Agus TBR was born in Pacitan, East Java, on August 1979. He studied in Faculty of Fine Art at Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta (Indonesia Institute of the Arts Yogyakarta) from 1999, and graduated in 2006. When he was still a student at the ISI, he received the Pratisara Affandi Adikarya 2003 for the best painting. After graduating from the institute, he became a finalists in the Jakarta Art Awards 2007. Agus also won the Akili Museum Art Award in 2008 in Jakarta, for scholarships to studied in Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA) in Beijing China. He currently lives and works in Yogyakarta. Agus uses a rather realistic style along with the addition of illussions of movement to point out how events in daily life greatly affect his thoughts and ideas. Some of his earlier paintings appear quite semisurrealistic in style. The themes for the Artist’s work are mostly taken from the problems of urban living.

Agus also explores ideas regarding global warming and the pressures of degraded urban environments.

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KIKO ESCORA (Philippines, 1970) Untitled, 2008

Oil on canvas:152 x 123.5 cm Signed, lower left: KIKOESCORA 2008 SGD 4,000 – 5,000 USD 2,960 – 3,700 Born in Philippines, 1970. He is well known as a figurative painter because he usually paints figures. He prefers using a mixture of oil and acrylic. His inputs come from the people around him, strangers and friends. Technically he is very traditional for he uses brush and the paint and applies it on a canvas in a traditional manner."Every person has a unique way of looking at life." An insight portrayed in words by artist Kiko Escora - an emotion expressed in a canvas and interpreted by the individual's recognition of intelligence mixed with beauty.

Kiko is known in art circles as a figurative painter because he usually paints figures. Kiko prefers using a mixture of oil and acrylic. His inputs come from the people around him, strangers and friends. Technically he is very traditional for he uses brush and the paint and applies it on a canvas in a traditional manner.

"The ideas that I put in my canvas are not really new, but I would like to think that my work is unique, different from any painter's work. I'm more into the context of my work. Some artists are into formal painting, into the aesthetics of things.

The materials that they use - that's just it. There is no meaning beyond them. I work in narratives, stories, in the pictures.

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MAHYUDDIN S.

(Bukittinggi, Sumatra 1924 - 1993) Herding Oil on canvas: 60 x 121 cm Signed, lower left : Mahyuddin S. SGD 2,000 – 3,000 USD 1,480 – 2,220

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LAM DUCH MANH (Vietnam, 1972) Hanoi’s Old Street

Oil on canvas: 100 x 1000 cm Signed, lower left: M. Lam SGD 1,500 - 2,000 USD 1,110 - 1,480

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WAN SOON KAM

(Singaporean, 1943) Victoria Memoria Hall, 1991 Watercolor on paper: 51 x 71 cm Signed and dated, lower right: WanSoonKam 91 SGD 3,000 – 5,000 USD 2,220 – 3,700

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I GUSTI AGUNG WIRANATA (Kapal, Bali, 1969) Morning Activity, 1999

Oil on canvas: 105 x 150 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Wiranata, Bali99 SGD 8,500 – 10,000 USD 6,290 – 7,400

He was born in Kapal village, Bali, in 1969. His works have been in collection of Museum Puri Lukisan Ratna Warta, Ubud Bali. His works is greatly by Walter Spies with his own distinctive style. He had participated in Walter Spies exhibitions in 1995.

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Popo Iskandar Born in Garut, December 17, 1927. Popo Iskandar started painting in 1944. He graduated from the University of Indonesia and Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). Besides as a painter he is also an art observer and writer. In 1980 he received art award from Indonesian Government. He has participated in many exhibitions in Indonesia as well as overseas. His works were mostly on animal such as chicken, cat, and tiger.

For Popo, the artistic process is no different from the cultural process, that is, it is a long process of study. Every painting is like a reflection. It is an integral part of every one of Popo’s efforts of the past, the present and the future. One of Popo’s works is not a record of what he has seen, but rather an interpretation of what he has observed through subject matter. Popo’s repetitive themes are not merely duplicates his ideas, but an accumulation of his endless exploration towards his rich experiences. The source of his idea of cats is not the form of the cat, but rather its involvement in various situations and conditions which stimulate his ideas and imaginations. Repetitive theme of cats, chickens and leopards probably has become Popo Iskandar’s main contemplation in reflecting the essence of cats, nudity or even mystery of nature.

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(Garut, 1927 – Bandung, 2000) Two Leopard and The Moon, 1997 Oil on canvas: 100 x 120 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Popo97 This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from Griya Seni Popo Iskandar Literature: Rupakata: Art and Thoughts of Popo Iskandar pg. 424 SGD 25,000 – 40,000 USD 18,500 – 29,600

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IBNU NURWANTO (Yogyakarta, 1957) Aku dan Anjing, 2013

Acrylic on canvas: 67 x 70 cm Titled and dated on the reverse SGD 2,000 – 3,000 USD 1,480 – 2,220 Born in Yogyakarta, 1957. From 1974 – 1975, he studied art at Lembaga Pendidikan Kesenian Jakarta. He actively participated in several exhibitions since 1974 and performed his solo exhibition in 1988 at Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM), Jakarta. Besides sculptor, Ibnu also creates paintings.

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WILLEM VAN DER DOES

(Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1889 – 1966) Moonlit Ship Wreck At Low Tide Oil on canvas onto panel : 59 x 44 cm Signed, lower left: W.V.D.Does SGD 5,500 – 7,000 USD 4,070 – 5,180

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JUMALDI ALFI

(Lintau, West Sumatra, 1973) Burning Head, 1998 Acrylic on canvas: 130 x 180 cm Signed and dated, lower middle: Afli98 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse SGD 5,000 – 7,500 USD 3,700 – 5,550

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RUDOLF BONNET

(Amsterdam, 1895 – 1978) Kop Van Een Balische Man, 1962 Charcola and crayon on paper: 52 x 39 cm Signed, lower right: R. Bonnet Dated, lower left: Anticoli 1962 Literature: Dr. H. de Roever - Bonnet Rudolf Bonnet, Een zondagskind, Published by Pictures Publishers, pg. 116 SGD 5,000 – 7,000 USD 3,700 – 5,180 64

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Born in Amsterdam, 1895. He studied art at the Hendrick de Keijser-school, the Rijksschool voor Kunstnijverheid and the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. He visited Indonesia in 1936 and stayed in Bali from 1931 – 1941. He helped establish the Museum Puri Lukisan and together with Walter Spies founded the Pita Maha Artist’s Association (1936). His works are amongst the collections of former President Soekarno, the Neka Museum, the Agung Rai Fine Art Gallery, the Rijksmuseum Kroller Muller Otterlo and the Sinerg Museum in Laren.

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XU WENTAO

(b. Wuhan, China, 1968) Bathing, 2003 Oil on canvas: 130 x 160 cm Signed and dated, lower right: in chinese characters, 2003,4 SGD 8,000 - 10,000 USD 5,920 - 7,400

Xu Wentao graduated from the Department of Art of Jianghan University in 1991 and he graduated with Masters from the Department of Oil painting from the Hubei Fine Art Institute where Xu has been teaching in the Oil painting Department since 1999. Xu received the 7th Luo Zhongli Scholarship by Taiwan Art Foundation in1999 on his artistic abilities. Xu has actively participated in group exhibitions, taking part in exhibitions such as The First Salon of Art in Autumn, Beijing (2004), Exhibition of Contemporary Art: Slowly, Fine Arts Literature Art Center Wuhan, China (2004), China’s Photographic Painting, Art Seasons Gallery, Beijing (2004), Exhibition of Contemporary Art: Play and Plus, Wuhan, China (2004), ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair 2003, Madrid, Spain (2003), and 3rd Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition, China National Museum of Fine Art, Beijing (2003)

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BUDI UBRUX

(Yogyakarta, 1968) Secangkir Harapan, 2009 Oil on canvas: 100 x 60 cm Signed and dated, lower right: B. Ubrux, 09 SGD 3,000 - 5,000 USD 2,220 - 3,700 Born in 1968. He was graduated from the Institute of Fine Art (ISI) Yogyakarta. He had lived for 2 years in Switzerland to continue his study and working. He has participated in several exhibitions in Indonesia and overseas. He had his solo exhibition in Semarang Gallery (2002). He received awards as the first winner of PMIAA, a finalist for Asean Art Award (2000) in Singapore and Indofood Art Award, Jakarta (2002). Now he lives in Bantul, Yogyakarta.

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Lee Man Fong Born in Canton, China, 1913, Lee Man Fong was one of a rare artist who received honor by critics and collectors across Asia. As an Oriental artist, Lee man Fong has renewed and transformed Western oil painting by imbuing it with the essence of Chinese ink painting, achieving a mutual identity between subject and object, at the same time vastly opening the restrictions on traditional Chinese painting. In short, he created a unique “Man-fong style”.

Lee Man Fong was one of a rare artist who received honor by critics and collectors across Asia. As an Oriental artist, Lee has renewed and transformed Western oil painting by imbuing it with the essence of Chinese ink painting, achieving a mutual identity between subject and object, at the same time vastly opening the restrictions on traditional Chinese painting. In short, he created a unique “Man-fong style”.

Doves has become Lee Man Fong’s beloved and sought after works in spite of Goldfishes and other animals such as horses, cockatoos, tigers and dogs. Lee Man Fong’s painting of Doves is noteworthy.

Since some forty years ago, his animal themes had made a far reaching accomplishment and recently eagerly sought after in Europe and America. A testimony to his mastery of technique and realization of theme, this painting depicts the world of the doves as peaceful and calm, but at the same time dynamic. The doves in pairs symbolize a good match, which may be further extended to mean “peaceful coexistence.”

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LEE MAN FONG

(Canton, China 1913 – Singapore 1988) Doves Oil on board: 102 x 50 cm Signed and stamped in chinese character, lower left Provenance: Private Collector, Jakarta SGD 55,000 – 70,000 USD 40,700 – 51,800

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(Singaporean, born 1959) Orchids

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(Singaporean, 1907 - 1987) Bamboo and Rocks Chinese ink on paper: 33.5 x 102 cm Sealed in chinese, top left

SGD 2,000 – 4,000 USD 1,480 – 2,960

SGD 1,500 – 3,000 USD 1,110 – 2,220

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DR. FOO YONG KONG (b.1948) Morrning Glory, 2013

Oil on canvas: 51 x 61 cm Signed , lower left: Yong Kong Signed, titled and dated on the reverse: Morning Glory, 2013 SGD 1,000 – 2,000 USD 740 – 1,480 Dr. Foo Yong Kong graduated from the Malaysian Institute of Art in 1976, majoring in oil and chinese ink painting, as well as calligraphy.

His overwhelming desire to create art that is universal in nature led him to explore the eld of abstract art. His Abstract-Expressionism works which symbolize his own signature style combine the philosophies of the east and west into a harmonious, distinctive art form. Over the years his abstract paintings have evolved from the representational to the spontaneous, reecting the free ow of his thoughts and emotions. In recent years he took part in the Asia-International Art Exhibition 2002 in Busan; The Biannual of Florence, Italy 2003; the International Ink Paintings Exhibition 2004, Tokyo, Japan; the Korea Malaysia Abstract Art Exhibition, 2005; and the Beijing Malaysia Calligraphy Solo Exhibition, 2005.

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CHEN WEN HSI 陈文希 (Singapore, 1906 - 1991) Weaving Chick

Chinese ink on rice paper: 37.5 x 47 cm Signed in chinese character and stamped on upper left Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist SGD 10.000 - 15.000 USD 7.400 - 11.100

Chen Wen Hsi paintings were strongly influenced by Chan (Zen) and the unorthodox Qing School of Yangzhou. He actively participated in several exhibitions outside Singapore which also incidentally promote Singapore. Chen Wen Hsi’s artistic excellence was recognized. Among the many awards he had received are the Public Service Star in 1964, a Gold Medal by the National Museum of History, Taiwan in 1980, the first recipient of the ASEAN Cultural and Communication Award for outstanding artists in 1987 and received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Singapore. He became famous since his oil study on formalism, cubism, and expressive abstraction and would subsequently become one of the most influential Singaporean ink painters of the 20th century.

Acquired directly from the artist, the present lot is an example of his profound ability to capture the “mood” and “spirit” of his environment, skillfully executed with great spontaneity through deft brush and finger strokes. It depicts a keen observation of nature and animals that showcase the artist’s ability to harmonise Chinese art techniques on distinct subjects commonly encountered in Singapore.

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I GUSTI KETUT KOBOT

(Pengosekan, Gianyar, Bali, 1917 – 1999) Ramayana Story, 1988 Acrylic on canvas: 45 x 35 cm Signed, upper left : I Gusti Ketut Kobot, Pengosekan Mas Dated, upper right: Ubud Gianyar Indonesia, Bali, 1988 SGD 8.000 - 10.000 USD 5.920 - 7.400

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Born in Pangosekan, Ubud - Bali in 1917. Kobot was a member of Pita Maha painters group since 1936 -1942, but unlike other painters in the group, his painting style is very individualist. Most of his paintings reflect the story of Ramayana and Mahabharata. During the year of 1920s, many painters in Ubud and its surrounding area were influence by western painters like Rudolf Bonnet and Walter Spies. Some Bali painters including Kobot still used traditional theme combined with new influence. In 1975, he held his solo exhibition at Puri Lukisan, Museum of Ubud. In the same year he joined in the exhibition held in Sydney, Australia, together with young painters of Pengosekan. In 1978, he received an art award of Wijaya Kusuma, from the Regional Government of Gianyar and Dharma Kusuma Award from the Bali government

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KOEBOE SARAWAN (Malang, 1961) Arca, 1987

Oil on canvas: 60 x 60 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Koeboe 87 SGD 7.000 - 10.000 USD 5.180 - 7.400 Born in Malang, East Java, 1961. He finished his study at The Indonesian Institute of Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta and later took lesson of Batik Solo. His works have been actively represented in several group exhibitions in major cities in Indonesia, among others, Surabaya, Malang, Jakarta, Solo, Bali and Yogyakarta.

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SOEDIBIO

(Madiun, 1912 - 1981) Semar, 1977 Oil on canvas: 100 x 135 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Soedibio 77 Provenance: Private collection, Jakarta SGD 5.000 - 7.000 USD 3.700 - 5.180

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Ahmad Sadali Born in Garut, West Java, 1924, Ahmad Sadali was known for his abstract art and titles that never give away any clues on the content of the painting, such as Gold on Purple Relief, or Gold on a wrinkled plane. Considered the father of Indonesian abstract art, and a teacher at the Bandung Institute of Technology, he exerted a wide influence on his students such as Umi Dachlan. Ahmad Sadali was known as an artist of abstract art, while AD. Pirous another abstract painter, who has brought Arabic calligraphy to the level of expressive art, has developed a tendency toward the abstract.

The colors, the pieces, the etched gold tinsel, still remains one direction, a mystery.

Something that was unreachable, but very large and powerful. In each of his works he always worshiped the Gods greatness. His paintings are sometimes full of question, because it relies on something that causes people to take them into account. He talked about something vague, something grand and beautiful. But because the technique and the intensity have reached a certain level, so we felt there was honesty in his search, he was so convincing. Sadali take us to the Lord's feet with the fields of rich, colorful and emotionless. He had managed to relate us with the world beyond our reach.

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AHMAD SADALI

(Garut, West Java, 1924 - Bandung, 1987) Bidang dan Bongkah-bongkah Horizontal di Atas Merah, 1980 Mixed media on canvas: 99 x 99 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Sadali, 1980 Provenance: Private collection of prominent collector who acquired the painting directly from the artist SGD 70.000 - 120.000 USD 51.800 - 88.800

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ARIE SMIT

(Zaandam,The Netherlands, 1916 - Bali, 2016) Candi Bentar, 2011 Acrylic on canvas: 43 x 50 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Arie Smit, 2011 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse This lot is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity from the Artist SGD 9.500 - 12.000 USD 7.030 - 8.880

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Born in Zaandam, the Netherlands, 1916. He was a student of the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam before working as lithographer for the Dutch Colonial Army in the Dutch Indies prior to the Second World War. He moved to Bali in 1956 to engage in full time painting and became an Indonesian Citizen, produced as well as taught painting at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). Many of his paintings depict the nature of his surrounding environment. He had several solo exhibitions in Bandung Institute of Technology, The Honolulu East West Center, and the Center of Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta. He received the “Dharma Kusuma� art awards from the local government of Bali.

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AGUNG MANGU PUTRA (b. Bali, Indonesia, 1963) Tulamben Bali, 2002

Oil on canvas: 80 x 140 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Mangu Putra, 2002 This lot is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity from the Artist SGD 6.000 - 8.000 USD 4.440 - 5.920

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CAREL LODEWIJK DAKE, Jr

(Schaerbeek, 1886 – Jakarta, 1946) Landscape Oil on board: 26 x 33 cm Signed, lower right: Cl. Dake SGD 2.000 - 3.000 USD 1.480 - 2.220

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PUTU SUTAWIJAYA

(Bali, 1971) Untitled II, 1998

Mixed media on canvas: 140 x 90 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Putu Sutawijaya 98 SGD 9.000 - 12.000 USD 6.660 - 8.880

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Born in Bali, 1971. He studied at Sekolah Tinggi Seni Rupa Denpasar (STSR), Bali and continued his study to Indonesia Institute of Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta. He graduated from ISI in 1997. He had his solo exhibitions in Yogyakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong and Jakarta. He also participated in numerous group exhibitions since 1990 in Bali, Yogyakarta, Hong Kong, etc. He was awarded Best Watercolor and Sketch from ISI Yogyakarta (1991) and Best Painting from ISI Yogyakarta, Top Ten Paintings (1999) and Lempad Price from Sanggar Dewata Indonesia in 2000.

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FADJAR SIDIK

(Surabaya, 1930 - 2004) Abstrak Biru Oil on canvas: 100 x 139 cm Signed, lower middle: F. Sidik SGD 6.000 - 8.000 USD 4.440 - 5.920

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KHOO SUI HOE

(b.1939 , Kedah, Malaysia) Cameron Highlands, 1982 Acrylic on canvas: 56 x 56 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Sui Hoe SGD 4.000 - 6.000 USD 2.960 - 4.440

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Agus Suwage Born in Purworejo, 1959. He studied at Bandung Institute of Technology (1979 – 1986), Artist in Residence in QUT, Brisbane, Australia (199a6), and Artist in Residence in “Sai-no-kuni” Saitama, the Museum of Modern Art, Japan (1999 – 2000). Agus Suwage is one of Indonesia’s most important contemporary artists. He lives and works currently in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Suwage is actively engaged in both local and international scenes since the late 1980s. He has participated in over 150 museum and gallery exhibitions around the world. His art practice - which includes drawing, painting, sculpture and installation - has been exhibited in major art events across Indonesia and abroad. He performed his solo exhibitions in H Block Gallery, QUT, Brisbane, Australia (1996), Cemeti Contemporary Art Gallery, Yogyakarta (1998), Gen Gallery & Public Center Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan (2000), and Nadi Gallery, Jakarta (2001, 2002). He joined several group exhibitions in Indonesia and overseas, Jakarta Art and Design Expo, Jakarta (1992), Art Gallery Conink, the Netherlands (1993), Cheju Pre-Biennale, South Korea (1995), Phillip Morris ASEAN Art Award, National Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (1996), Tachikawa International Art Festival (1999), Museo de la Cuida de Mexico, Museum of Mexico (2000), Circle Point Gallery, Washington DC, USA (2002), etc.

Whilst his oeuvre predominantly circles around the phenomenon of “death”, he is also engaged with an obsession of portraiture. Since the mid 90’s his own projection onto canvas has become the focal point of his artistic concern. At the most intimate level, his works might just be a medium for him to face and overcome his constant personal fear towards it. He thereby often uses popular symbols and iconography to invite an engagement with the beholder. Charcoal figures of skulls and skeletons dominate the works in his exhibitions, using images related to death as a chance to gaze at life face to face. The use of such imagery is Suwage’s way of confronting the act of living to its final point, when all action, belief and faith meet their inevitable end.

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AGUS SUWAGE (Purworejo, 1959) Untitled, 1992

Oil on canvas: 60 x 50 cm Signed and dated, lower middle: Agus Suwage 92 SGD 27.000 - 35.000 USD 19.980 - 25.900

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ENTANG WIHARSO (Tegal, 1967) Mother’s Love, 1995

Acrylic on canvas: 110 x 146 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Entang Wiharso 95 SGD 3.500 - 6.000 USD 2.590 - 4.440

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I MADE DJIRNA (Ubud, 1957) Teruna-teruni, 2002

Mixed media on canvas: 90 x 100 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Djirna, 2002 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the artist SGD 3.000 - 5.000 USD 2.220 - 3.700

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WAN SOON KAM (Singapore, b, 1943) Malaca Stream, 1987

Watercolor on paper : 72 x 52 cm Signed and dated, lower right: WanSoonKam 87 SGD 3.000 - 5.000 USD 2.220 - 3.700 78

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ONG KIM SENG

(Singapore, 1945) Oleg Tambulilingan (Balinese Dancer),1976 Watercolor on paper : 71.5 x 51.5cm Signed, dated, titled and sealed lower right: Ong Kim Seng 76 SGD 10.000 - 15.000 USD 7.400 - 11.100

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Affandi Affandi was passionate about his country and a large proportion of his works concerns his feelings about the land and its people. Though Affandi only painted what he observed and never approached his works from any kind of philosophical or analytical starting point, he was particularly fond of Balinese and Javanese culture.

There are some works that used natural landscapes as their subject matter. Affandi especially liked to depict seascapes, or coastal landscapes with fishing boats. However, these works are far from being naturalistic, as they hardly relate to the matter of sky color, as affected by the sunlight.

The natural landscapes seen in Affandi’s paintings do not show any “realistic effect”, either. It is generally known that Affandi’s landscapes – as well as other paintings – reveal lines (the result of paint applied directly on the canvas using the painter’s hands instead of brushes) that area arabesque and staccato in nature ant rhythm.

The images in many of his landscapes require a keen eye for arts to be recognised.

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AFFANDI

(Cirebon, 1907 – 1990) Kusamba Boat and Fisherman, 1962 Oil on canvas: 99 x 119 cm Signed and dated, lower right: AF.1962 Provenance: Private collection of prominent collector Will be included in the future book publication of Soekarno Favorite Painters SGD 70.000 - 100.000 USD 51.800 - 74.000

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TAY BAK KOI

(1939-2005, Singapore) Returning Mixed media on paper: 78 x 44 cm Signed, lower right: Bak Koi SGD 6.000 - 8.000 USD 4.440 - 5.920 Solo Exhibitions 1964 : Tengah Airport Club, Singapore.

1964-65 : National Library, Singapore Art Society, Singapore.

1966 : Ipoh Public Library, Malaysia.

1970-71 : Gallery Fine Art, Singapore.

1971 : National Library, Singapore.

1974-75 : National Library, Singapore Art Society, Singapore.

1975 : Raya Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

1978 : Gallery Fine Art, Orchard Towers, Singapore.

1979 : Raya Gallery, Hyatt Hotel, Singapore.

1981 : Hyatt Hotel, Singapore.

1990 : Lone Pine Gallery, Ming Court Hotel (now Orchard Parade Hotel), Singapore.

1990 : Impression: The Art of Tay Bak Koi, National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore.

2007 : Reminiscences of Tay Bak Koi, Stamford House, Singapore.

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THOMAS YEO

(b. 22 April 1936, Singapore) Misty Morning Mixed media on board: 60,5 x 78,5 cm Signed, lower left: tyeo Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist SGD 4.000 - 6.000 USD 2.960 - 4.440

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ANAK AGUNG GEDE SOBRAT

(Gianyar, Bali, 1909 – Denpasar, Bali 1992) Bali Life, 1957 Oil on canvas: 61 x 48 cm Signed and dated, lower right: AA. Gde.Sobrat, Ububd Bali 57 SGD 14.000 - 18.000 USD 10.360 - 13.320

He was born in Padangtegal, Gianyar, Bali, 1909. He learnt painting from Walter Spies and later under Rudolf Bonnet. Sobrat’s paintings generally mark the beginning of modernization of Balinese Art. He was a lecturer at the Indonesian Fine Art Academy (ASRI) Yogyakarta specialized in Balinese paintings (1957 – 1959). His works are amongst the collection of: Painting Museum, (Ubud), Bali Art Center (Denpasar), Sono Budoyo Museum (Yogyakarta), Tropen Museum (Amsterdam) and Rijksmuseum Voor Volkenkunde (Leiden). He received the Wijaya Kusuma Cultural Award from the Regional Government of Gianyar and the Dharma Kusuma Cultural Award from the Provincial Government of Bali. He passed away in Denpasar on 30 September 1992.

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WU GUANZHONG (China, 1919 – 2010)

A. Autumn Joy, ed 13/100, Lithograph: 45 x 48.5 cm B. Three Beauties, ed 13/100, Lithograph: 68.5 x 44.5 cm C. a Village House in Spring, ed 27/100, Lithograph: 44.5 x 53 cm D. Parrots, ed 27/100, Lithograph: 68 x 68 cm E. Jiangnan Houses, ed 13/100, Lithograph: 62 x 68 cm F. Nursery, ed 13/100 Lithograph: 68.5 x 81 cm Signed and sealed in chinese character Each piece is accompanied with a certificate of authenticity from the Gallery.

Illustrated in the exhibition brochure signed by artist Wu Guangzhong with chinese sealed.

Exhibition: SooBin Art Gallery SGD 35.000 - 50.000 USD 25.900 - 37.000

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TANG DA WU

(b. 1943, Singapore) Hook, 1987 Watercolor and Ink on Paper: 76 x 54 cm Signed, dated, and stamp, lower right SGD 2.500 - 4.000 USD 1.850 - 2.960

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Fauzul Yusri

(b. Kedah, 1974) Segi-Segi, 2014

Mixed media on canvas: 91 x 91 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Fauzul Yusri, 2014 SGD 1.500 - 2.500 USD 1.110 - 1.850

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(b. 1943, Singapore) Lost Balance, 1988 Ink on paper: 60.5 x 72 cm Signed and dated, lower left: DaWuTang 88 SGD 2.600 - 4.000 USD 1.920 - 2.960 86

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SUNARYO

(Banyumas, 1943) Puisi Bantul, 2007 Mixed media on canvas: 120 x 120 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Sunaryo 07 SGD 8.500 - 10.000 USD 6.290 - 7.400

Born in Banyumas, Central Java, 1943. Sunaryo studied at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) majoring Art Department in 1969 and continued to study marble carving for 7 months at Carrara, Italy in 1975. Then he joined the Decenta group which was reacting against the more traditional "Bandung school" that had pioneered abstract art and was viewed generally as more Westernized than other schools of thought at the time. Artists in Decenta were trying to reprocess the visual elements of Indonesia's traditional arts in search of "local colour and their cultural roots," Sunaryo recalled.

Sunaryo is an artist who mixes figurative themes with abstract backgrounds using very refined color palette and graceful lines that show great technical mastery. His last mixed media treat interesting aspects of contemporary life which also render his viewer to the global problem of pollution and preservation of nature. Therefore, there are several inspirational elements in is work, and nature and the environment are key themes. He loves to use natural materials such as rattan, grass, bamboo, jute, canvas, nets and fibers in his multimedia. His works are quite unique. He produced paintings, graphics, ceramics, sculptures and installations. His abstract works are dominated with line and form with the use of white, brown, grey and black colours.

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ZAF CHEVALLIER

(February, 1959) New World Series - Borobudur Oil on canvas: 140 x 140 cm SGD 3.000 - 5.000 USD 2.220 - 3.700

Zaf Chevallier born in Jakarta, 10 February 1959.

He is a multi talented artist, graphic designer, and fashion and interior designer whose works are the results of the different cultures which he has experienced. Born in Indonesia, Zaf moved to the Netherlands in 1977 where he spent 26 years working, studying, and absorbing the Dutch culture. Zaf worked for 11 years before deciding to further his education and enrolled in the Leiden Educational Institution (LOI), Leiden, Netherlands in Interior Art Design and Architecture. During his education, Zaf worked on his own art design and oil paintings, and his art was exhibited in art galleries in Roosendaal, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam from 1991 to 1995.

Exposed to different cultures and coming from Indonesia, who has been colonized by different cultures as the Portuguese, Japanese, and Dutch, Zaf’s paints his philosophy of the future and how a cohesive world should be. In Zaf’s words, “The new world that is our destination no matter if we are still alive or dead. The message for our future lies in peace, happiness, freedom, and love. No human power, no religion, no politics, no sadness, no illness, no wars, and everybody in the new world living in equal societies, respect, and are honest to one another”.

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CHOO AI LOON (B. 1959) White Orchid

Oil on canvas: 61 x 81 cm Signed, lower right: Ai Loon SGD 3.000 - 5.000 USD 2.220 - 3.700

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LEE HOCK MOH (b. 1947, Singapore) Two Pigeons

Chinese ink and color on paper: 66 x 64,5 cm Signed in chinese character and sealed, middle right SGD 10.000 - 12.000 USD 7.400 - 8.880

Lee Hock Moh is a Singaporean artist whose detailed and vibrant orchid paintings have won him accolades both locally and internationally. Trained in traditional Chinese ink and Western oil painting, Lee is considered a second-generation artist of the Nanyang Style and is the first local artist to specialise in painting orchids in the gongbi (fine line) style. In later years, Lee started painting landscapes. He developed his own unique style of representing mountains, rivers, stones and nature by integrating Western art techniques with traditional Chinese ink painting.His works are highly acclaimed and have been exhibited in Singapore and internationally in places like China, Hong Kong, Japan, USA and Russia. For his artistic contributions, Lee was awarded the Cultural Medallion for Visual Arts in 1981.

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Srihadi Soedarsono The merging of spiritual and physical control obtained in dance obviously appeals to the philosophical Srihadi. Some of his figurative paintings, especially the dancers, look deceptively similar, and that the figures have become stereotypes, but one should try to appreciate and study the details and minimal variations. Srihadi pays particular attention to the characteristic of the dancer and the artistic form of the dance. Every dance has its language or vocabulary of movement and type of costume, all of which imbued with philosophical meaning.

Srihadi gives us many variants in this new approach to the depiction of the dance.

When he first started to focus on the idea of movement, he did so by paying with the parallelism of gestures and by emphasizing the realistic aspect of the dancer’s bodies.

Color was then relatively secondary. By the early 1990’s rhythm had taken a life of its own, as shown by the vibrant dynamism of the dancer. In painting the present lot, the dancers’ eyes remain transfixed even as their body movements are transformed into a feast of glittering color. Even so, and however much the costumes of the dancers drift rhythmically over the canvas surface, it is in fact the artist’s working of this background that embodies the idea of movement.

In dance paintings from the mid – 1980s onwards, Srihadi has explored other aspects of the inner nature of movement besides those of immobility and diffused dynamism.

Some lie midway between these two tendencies. He has explored composed movement, such as that practiced in the traditional dance of the Javanese palaces, in particular the Bedoyo Ketawang, which is considered to be the epitome of Javanese refinement. In the paintings on this theme, the fuzzy atmosphere shrouding the figures is gone; rather, the head and limbs are suspended, almost immobile, and drawn with an extreme delicacy, otherwise found only in the artist’s work depicting wayang puppets.

Only the cloth moves, slowly drifting along the ground, merging dark violet into black.

There is a visual rhythm set up by the inert head and limbs, the color of the headdress, and the casual placement of the hanging white garlands.

105 SRIHADI SOEDARSONO (Solo, 1931) Bedoyo Ketawang-Beauty of Soul, 2016 Oil on canvas: 150 x 150 cm Signed and dated, upper right: Srihasi S.2016 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the artist SGD 125,000 - 150,000 USD 92,500 - 111,000

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LEE MAN FONG

(Canton, China 1913 – Singapore 1988) Portrait Pastel on paper: 49.5 x 39 cm Signed and sealed, lower right: MF.L SGD 15.000 - 30.000 USD 11.100 - 22.200

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He was born in Canton, China, 1913. He arrived at Singapore at young age then later moved to Jakarta. He has shown great artistic talent since young. He participated in the Association’s First Art Exhibition invited by the head of the Dutch East Indies Associations (1931). Lee Man Fong was a successful commercial artist before engaged in full time painting in 1941. His successful exhibitions in Bandung and Jakarta made him a fast growing artist at that time. He received scholarship from the Dutch government to study painting in Holland (1946). In 1952 he returned to Indonesia and gained more credits as well as acknowledgement. He was officially become a presidential palace’s painter and chief curators of its collection in 1961 and compiled a 5 volume edition of President Sukarno’s art collection. He died in 1988 and remembered as a western vigorous painter and an oriental unique oil painting painter.

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AWIKI

(Surabaya, 1961) Penjual Pisang Oil on canvas: 95 x 80 cm

SGD 3.000 - 5.000 USD 2.220 - 3.700

Born in Surabaya, November 11, 1961 but well known as painter from Banyuwangi. He studied painting under Bani Amora in Genteng then continued his study at Fine Art School Yogyakarta. He also studied to paint from Dullah in Pejeng Gallery and later joined in Kamboja Gallery among with other 17 painters. He used impasto technique and impresinostic style for his work.

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HUANG FONG

(Genteng, Banyumas, East Java, 1936) Harvest Oil on canvas: 65 x 90 cm Signed, lower right: Huang Fong SGD 6.000 - 8.000 USD 4.440 - 5,920

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HAN SNEL

(Scheveningen, 1925 – 1998) Balinese Village, 1957 Oil on canvas: 50 x 45 cm Signed, lower right: Han Snel Placed and dated, lower left: Bali 57 SGD 6.500 - 9.500 USD 4.810 - 7.030

Born in Scheveningen, Holland, 1925. He came to Indonesia as a Dutch soldier to fight against the Indonesian people, which after he abandoned his side.

He specialized in graphic painting which is very rich in color as well as geometrical abstract. He lived in Bali since 1950 and became an Indonesian citizen. He has participated in several exhibitions include at Itoh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 1965.

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CHOO KENG KWANG (b. Singapore, June 1931) Chatting Below Palm Trees Oil on board: 69 x 51.5 cm Signed, lower right Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist SGD 5.000 - 7.000 USD 3.700 - 5.180

He was born in June 3, 1931 in Singapore. He studied at Catholic High School. He continued to study painting at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) and graduated in 1953 at the age of 21. He learned art from his guidance of his father, Choo Kim Kye. He became Head of the Art Education Department at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts. He received awards The Public Service Medal, PBM (Art), Commendation award, and Bundaberg Art Society. He has been actively participating in several group exhibitions in many countries such as Taiwan, Japan, USA, Monaco, and France. He started on-thespot painting in his 30s. He awarded the Public Service Medal in 1976. He had also held several solo exhibitions in Malaysia, Singapore, USA, and Indonesia.

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JEIHAN SUKMANTORO

(Solo, 1938) Kusuma Aditya (Bunga Matahari), 1985 Oil on canvas : 140 x 200 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Jeihan, 85 Signed and titled on the reverse SGD 12.000 - 20.000 USD 8.880 - 14.800

Born in Solo, 1938. He studied at the Himpunan Budaya Surakarta (HBS – Surakarta Cultural Society) (1953 – 1955) and at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) (1960 – 1966).

In 1978, He established Studio Seni Rupa Bandung (Bandung Fine Arts Studio) together with Dr. Sudjoko. He has participated in several exhibitions. He held his solo exhibitions at Bandung (1998), Galerie Darga & Lansberg, Paris France (1999), Darga Gallery, Bali (2000), the Jakarta Hilton International Hotel, Jakarta and Nadi Gallery, Jakarta (2002). He combines Eastern mysticism with Western analytical sense that made his portraits paintings are very distinctive and well known.

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Agus Suwage Agus Suwage is first and foremost a graphic designer who has had 10-years experiences with commercial art before he ventured into his current profession as an artist. In mid1995, he borrowed the artistic mode of the German Anselm Keifer and the British Francis Bacon. Later, he tried to develop his own style starting to study with his own body and face in various poses and expression in realistic rendering as his means to convey socio-cultural issues in cynical, ironical and parody atmospheres. Suwage’s artistic explorations have as the basic photographic images that he develops with his sensitiveness and manual skills in drawing, adding support from digital manipulation, to produce images. His works illustrate how the constructed image of Western avant-garde art has been inspirational, through “museum without walls”, to the culture of the world’s modern art. Suwage’s mode of appropriation is by borrowing iconic imageries as his reference, to serve the metaphors for values actively working between love and hate, amazement and derision at once, in parodying, and so on.

Suwage loves to play music and was craczy about the rock band such as Led Zeppelin, Sex pistols, Radiohead and many more. His knowledge of art and music is encyclopedic. Some of the titles and theme of his works are connected with music. Beside a stacks of exhibition catalogue that stands piled up on one corner of his table, the Rolling stone magazines was always spread out in Suwage’s studio. It came to his inspiration the cover of Rolling Stones magazine as his subject to paint.

Anna-Lou “Annie” Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer. She photographed John Lennon on the day he was assassinated, and her work has been used on numerous album covers and magazines. On December 8th, 1980, Annie Leibovitz arrived at the New York apartment building of John Lennon and Yoko Ono to photograph the couple for a cover of Rolling Stone. She urged them both to take their clothes off, a flashback to their first Rolling Stone cover, in 1968, when they appeared naked to promote their Two Virgins album.

Ono declined, but Lennon was game, and stripped down before getting on the floor near their bed and curling up in a fetal position next to the woman he called “Mother.” “I remember peeling the Polaroid and him looking at it and saying, ‘This is it. This is our relationship,’ “Leibovitz recalled. Hours later, Lennon was shot dead in front of the building. The image (which in 2005 was voted the best magazine cover of the previous 40 years by the American Society of Magazine Editors) appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone’s January 22nd, 1981, issue. It was the heartbreaking end of a 13-year relationship between Lennon and the magazine.

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AGUS SUWAGE

(Purworejo, 1959) Balada John and Yoko, 2006 Oil on canvas: 150 x 145 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Agus Suwage, 2006 Provenance: Christie’s Hongkong, 23 November 2014 Lot 600 SGD 20.000 - 30.000 USD 14.800 - 22.200

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The cover image for the January 22nd, 1981 issue of Rolling Stone was taken on the day that he died.

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LUCIEN FRITS OHL

(Palembang, South Sumatra, 1904 – The Hague, 1976) The Harbour Oil on board: 76 x 61 cm Signed, lower right: L. Frits Ohl SGD 11.000 - 15.000 USD 8.140 - 11.100

Born in Palembang, South Sumatra, 1904. He was a selftaught painter whose works were mostly Indonesian landscape. He also produced paintings of Asian panorama.

He was a painter, watercolorist, and draughtsman in the style reminiscent of the late of GP. Adolfs. He once lived in Jakarta for a long time then settled in The Hague until he died in 1976.

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LEO ELAND

(Java, 1884 – 1952) Pemandangan Oil on canvas: 100 x 150 cm Signed, lower left: L. Eland SGD 3.500 - 5.000 USD 2.590 - 3.700

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ARIE SMIT

(Zaandam,The Netherlands, 1916 - Bali, 2016) Temple and Trees in Bloom, 2001 Acrylic on canvas: 45 x 35 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Arie Smit 01 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the artist SGD 13.000 - 18.000 USD 9.620 - 13.320

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SAMSUL ARIFIN

(Malang, East Java, 1979) Tried For Treason, 2001 Acrylic on canvas: 150 x 200 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Samsul Arifin.28-5-2008 SGD 10.000 - 15.000 USD 7.400 - 11.100

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Samsul is now pursuing his study at Indonesia Art Institute Yogyakarta (ISI). He is awarded as the Nominator of the Best 10 Works of Pratisara Affandi Adhikarya in 2003, the Best Watercolor Painting and the Best Skecthing Work of Indonesia Art Institute Yogyakarta in 2

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SALIM / SARAOCHIM SALIM (Medan, 1908 – Paris, 2008) Abstract, 1959 Oil on canvas: 38 x 46 cm Signed, lower right: Salim 59 SGD 4.500 - 6.000 USD 3.330 - 4.440

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PANDE KETUT TAMAN

(Peliatan, Ubud, 1970) The Shadow of Prambanan, 2007 Oil on canvas: 160 x 220 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Pande K Taman, Jogja 07 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse SGD 5.000 - 6.000 USD 3.700 - 4.440

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Adrien Jean Le Mayeur De Merpres Born in Brussels (Belgium), on 9 February 1880, in the nobility and linked with the Belgium royal family, he was the son of a painter. Adrien was very keen on becoming a painter himself, but his father insisted that he should complete his studies first. He graduated as a civil engineer (architect), but soon after devoted himself to painting.

Le Mayeur’s works were executed with free-flowing and bold, strong strokes, in bright and gay colours. When his first visit to Bali, he was deeply impressed by the temple rituals and dances, and by a girl called Ni Pollok, a legong dancer, in particular. Balinese culture, nature and Ni Pollok had startled him of the strong magic of Bali and totally changed his vision about life. In 1933, Ni Pollok had turned 16 and was too old to dance the legong, so she agreed to be Le Mayeur’s model. It was a local tradition that a legong dancer is at her best only between 12 through 17 years. She became the main theme of his paintings and in 1935, when she was 18, they married in a traditional Balinese ceremony.

His works, be they sketches done in light colours or bright-coloured oil paints, showed that they were inspired by the brilliant and clear tropical sunlight. His brightly-clad, energetic and graceful dancers, dancing to the beat of the drums and bells, or his women, kneeling beside the loom weaving sarong cloth, fully demonstrated the tranquil and fine life of the Balinese. He captured the daily life of people he personally observed around his surroundings and poured them into canvas in stunning expression.

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(Brussel, 1880 – 1958) Two Women on The Beach

Oil on canvas: 45 x 55 cm Signed, lower left: J. Le Mayeur Literature: Job Ubbens / Cathinka Huizing,“1880-1958 Adrien Jean LE MAYEUR de Merpes Painter-Traveller/Schilder-Reiziger”, Publisher Wijk en Aalburg/The Netherland, pg.116 SGD 35.000 - 50.000 USD 25.900 - 37.000

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120 CHEN WEN HSI 陈文希 (Singapore, 1906 - 1991) 3 Gibbons Chinese ink on rice paper: 96 x 54 cm Signed and stamped in chinese character, upper left SGD 15.000 - 20.000 USD 11.100 - 14.800

Chen's great interest in observing his surroundings were found in depicting the nature and animal objects. He produced landscapes, figures, birds and animals, still life studies and abstract compositions. Chen was especially adept at drawing egrets and monkeys. Among all the animal paintings by him, Chen's gibbon paintings stand out, as they were noted by Chen's attention to detail and sensitive rendering of the beautiful creatures. His first inspiration from painting gibbons came from a reproduction of a gibbon painting that formed the right triptych of the famous painting, White Robed Guanyin, Crane and Gibbon by the 13th century Southern Song Dynasty Chinese artist Mu Xi. Awed by its lifelike quality, he was convinced with Mu Xi's great skill in close observation of the gibbons. So day and night, Chen studied Mu Xi's print and emulated the painting. Chen had never seen a gibbon when he was in China, and as a result he did not realize that gibbons, unlike monkeys, had no tails. It was only much later in the late-1940s, that a foreigner pointed out his error in his painting, and corrected him. Later on he continued to study the creature's postures and its characteristics, by rearing it in his home garden. Chen Wen Hsi Chinese color on paper illustrates a dimension of great complexity and freshness of Chen’s ink and brush.

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KOEH SIA YONG

(B. 1938) Portriat of a Beauty , 1997 Oil on canvas: 75.5 x 91 cm Signed and dated, lower right Signed and dated on the reverse This lot is accompanied with Photo of Artist with Painting Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist SGD 6.000 - 10.000 USD 4.440 - 7.400

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MAT ALI MAT SOM

Oil on canvas: 36 x 28 cm Signed, lower right: Angeles

Oil on canvas: 94 x 76 cm Signed, lower right: MatAli 2012

This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the artist

SGD 1.000 - 2.000 USD 740 - 1.480

(B. Philipines) Pool of Tears, 2014

(B. Selangor, 1975) Warriors, 2012

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Cheong Soo Pieng Cheong Soo Pieng (b.1917, Amoy, China - d. 1st July 1983, Singapore) was a Singaporean artist who was a pioneer of the Nanyang art style, and a driving force to the development of Modernism in visual art in the early 20th-century Singapore. Cheong took to studying art at in the Xiamen Academy of Fine Art in 1933.

In 1936 Cheong graduated and attended Xinhua Academy of Fine Art in Shanghai for further studies, only to have his education cut short with the breakout of the Sino-Japanese War and the school destroyed by Japanese invaders in 1938. Cheong returned to his almamater to teach art, and pursued his painting passion in water colors due to scarcity of oil paint materials. In 1942 Cheong held his first solo exhibition of watercolor works. In 1945 Cheong left China for Hong Kong and relocated to Singapore in late 1946 where he would be a lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts for the next 20 years. In 1955 Cheong Soo Pieng, along with five other artists Chen Wen Hsi, Chen Chong Swee, Lim Hak Tai, Tay Wee Koh, and Suri bin Mohyani were invited to showcase their artworks in England, funded by fellow artist and arts patron Ho Kok Hoe. The exhibition was officially opened by the Duchess of Kent. In 1962, the Government of Singapore awarded Cheong Soo Pieng the Meritorious Service Medal. Cheong died on July 1, 1983 due to heart failure.

Cheong was also known for his signature depiction of Southeast Asian indigenous tribal people with elongated limbs and torso, almond-shaped faces and eyes in his paintings. He found great inspiration in the landscapes and people of Singapore and the region. Subjects in his paintings included coastal scenes, people watching puppet shows, and people going about their everyday lives. His vast collection of sources of cultural and aesthetic inspiration was also often fueled by his travels abroad. In 1983, Cheong passed away at the age of 66 due to heart failure. His legacy continues to be remembered through posthumous exhibitions of his work by the National Museum Art Gallery in 1983, the Singapore Art Museum in 2010, and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 2013.

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CHEONG SOO PIENG

(Amoy, China, b.1917 - Singapore, 1983) Communion, 1976 Oil in ceramic tile: 19 x 19 cm Signed in chinese character, lower right Signed and dated in the reverse Provenance: Private collection, Singapore Annonymous Sale, Christie’s Hongkong, 26 May 2013 Lot: 3647 SGD 26.000 - 35.000 USD 19.240 - 25.900

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CHEN WEN HSI 陈文希 (Singapore, 1906 - 1991) Herons

Chinese ink on rice paper: 35.3 x 47 cm Signed in chinese character and stamped on upper right SGD 10.000 - 15.000 USD 7.400 - 11.100

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Chen Wen-hsi is renowned for his skill in painting animal themes. Chicken, gibbons, herons, carps and squirrels are some of his favourite subjects. He had successfully combined Chinese and Western techniques in his semi abstract work. Wen Hsi’s constant eagerness to strike for something new led him to learn finger painting – a technique that dates from the Tang Dynasty. This drawing style has enabled him to produce unpredictable broken stroke on paper. He developed his skill in finger painting, ink-and-brush, oil, sketches, abstracts and semi-abstract techniques. Every subject he paints, whether lotuses, heron, gibbons, egrets, monkeys, squirrels, birds, or flowers and trees, is palpably vibrant. His ability to capture the “mood” and “spirit” of his environment, skillfully executed with great spontaneity through deft brush and finger strokes.

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SUZLEE IBRAHIM

(Kuala Terengganu, 1967) Chenang Series, Baya Merah, 2013 Oil on canvas: 61 x 61 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Suzlee Ibrahim 2013 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse SGD 1.500 - 2.000 USD 1.110 - 1.480 Suzlee Ibrahim is one of the nation’s most recognised abstract expressionism artists. He has been in the art world for more than 26 years. After graduating from University Technology Mara (UITM), he worked in advertising and publishing companies for a few years before returning to become a university lecturer. Suzlee is known for his series like Movement, Belantara, Space, Foundation, Ombak , inspired by the sound and crashing waves, Batik, Root, Sakura, Wall, Melody, inspired by music, Monsoon, which is full of coldness, Sahara ,which is fiery & restless and Meditation Series. Suzlee has held 23 solo exhibitions in more than 20 countries suchas United Kingdom, Germany, USA, France, Japan and many more. In recognition of his talents, Suzlee has been awarded then Recognition of Outstanding Creative Excellence, Tokok Seni: Anugerah Citra Kencana, University Kebangsaan Malaysia ,2011, and Excellent Masters Award, Unversiti Teknologi Mara in 2013.

Among the collectors of his artworks from the previous series are National Art Gallery,Movement Series, Highgrove, 2001, Central Bank of Malaysia ,Movement Series, Tulip 1, 2004, Remise Academy, Brande, Denmark ,Spirit of The Wind, 2002, The City Gallery Leicester, England, Between The Lines and Blue Sea ,2005 from the last of Movement Series is the collection of His Majesty The Yang Di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin.

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Ahmad Sadali Ahmad Sadali was graduated from the Department of Art, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) in 1953, where he later taught, becoming a Professor in the Art Department in 1972. He received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study at Iowa State University and the New York Art Student’s League in USA 1956-1957. He also studied in The Netherlands and Australia in 1977, a Pakistan in 1980. He held his solo exhibition in Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung and Yogyakarta. He also has participated in several group exhibitions such as in Indonesia, China, Japan, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, India, Vietnam, USA, Switzerland, UK, France, Brazil and Saudi Arabia. He received some Awards including the Anugerah Seni Art Award from the Indonesian Government in 1972 and awards from the Jakarta Arts Council at the Indonesian Painting Biennials in 1974 and 1978.

There are several stages within his artistic progress. In his early stage of advancement, his painting showed the influenced of synthetic cubism. This was his major artistic credo in the 1950’s. At the same time, he also made figurative paintings depicted in an emotional way that showed the influence of dominant art discourse.

He abandoned the cubistic style in the early 1960’s and produced afterwards abstract painting by deforming landscape paintings. Colors in his canvases previously arranged within geometric pattern were freed. Here, Sadali brought Arabic calligraphy to the level of expressive art which developed a tendency toward the abstract style.

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AHMAD SADALI

(Garut, West Java, 1924 - Bandung, 1987) Ayat Dikitari Bentuk-bentuk Bersisa Emas, 1986 Acrylic on canvas: 62 x 62 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Sadali 86 Titled and dated on the reverse Provenance: Private collection, Jakarta SGD 35.000 - 50.000 USD 25.900 - 37.000

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SUNARYO

(Banyumas, 1943) Model IV, ed.12/15, 2004 Bronze: 87 x 25 x 57 cm SGD 6.500 - 9.000 USD 4.810 - 6.660

Born in Banyumas, Central Java, 1943. He studied at Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) majoring in Sculpture (1969) and continued his study to Carrarra, Italy.

During 1970s, his sculptures were very much influenced by tribal arts in Indonesia.

Besides sculpture, he is also a master in painting using artistic touch. He inaugurated his museum, Selaras Sunaryo, in Bandung (1998).

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DIPO ANDY

(Sumbawa, 1975) The Collector, 1998 Oil on canvas: 144 x 140 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Dipo Andy, 1998 SGD 6.500 - 9.500 USD 4.810 - 7.030 Dipo Andy was born in Sumbawa 1975.

He graduated from Indonesia Institute of Art (1992-1999). He held his solo exhibition “Voice of Nation” in Intaran Gallery Bandung (1999), “Feminografi” in Gelaran Budaya Yogyakarta (2000), “Muka Kamu Amuk Muak” in Nasional Museum Jakarta (2001), “Mirror : Masters Revisited” in Vanessa Art Link Jakarta (2006). He was awarded as Top 5 Winner of Indonesia Art Award in Jakarta (1999).

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PUTU SUTAWIJAYA

(Bali, 1971) Awalnya Merangkak, 2004 Mixed media on canvas: 140 x 140 cm Signed, titled, dated, lower left : Putu Sutawijaya, 2004 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse

Born in Bali, 1971. He studied at Sekolah Tinggi Seni Rupa Denpasar (STSR), Bali and continued his study to Indonesia Institute of Arts (ISI), Yogyakarta.

He graduated from ISI in 1997. He had his solo exhibitions in Yogyakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong and Jakarta. He also participated in numerous group exhibitions since 1990 in Bali, Yogyakarta, Hong Kong, etc. He was awarded Best Watercolor and Sketch from ISI Yogyakarta (1991) and Best Painting from ISI Yogyakarta, Top Ten Paintings (1999) and Lempad Price from Sanggar Dewata Indonesia in 2000.

SGD 15.000 - 20.000 USD 11.100 - 14.800

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S. Sudjojono Sindudarsono Sudjojono was born in Kisaran North Sumatra, on December 14, 1913. He studied painting from Mas Pringadi and a Japanese painter, Chiyoyi Yazaki. In 1937 he founded the Persagi Indonesian Artists Association in Jakarta. In 1970 he was awarded recognition in art by the Indonesian government. His works have been exhibited in the Netherlands and in the Fukuoka Art Museum in Japan (1980). Local exhibitions have been held in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Denpasar and Bandung. He died in Jakarta (1986).

Sudjojono is widely regarded as the driving force behind the establishment of modern art in Indonesia. His favorite subjects were ordinary Indonesians, depicted with piercing emotional realism, sometimes showing joy, pathos, dignity, and frustration. Quite often his figures inhabit dramatic urban or rural landscapes in an almost epic sense.

S. Sudjojono used a combination of fantasy and memory to create his surrealistic landscapes. Sometimes, he incorporated elements derived from places that he had seen in books or actually visited.

Since he often painted landscape paintings, Sudjojono never stood against art of the landscape. In the period after 1965, Sudjojono’s landscape painting show a social-nationalist tendency, where in them elements of life and progress can be found, apparent in the depictions of farmers and fisherman at works and so on. These visual elements are lodged Sudjojono’s dream of ‘utopia’ and concern for the improvement of the peasant life.

Sudjojono’s landscape paintings also raise concern towards the lives of the people and the environment within the area. Therefore, what makes Sudjojono’s landscape painting differ from the mooi indie is that he depicted the beauty and the wealth of the Indonesian landscape with its current problems and challenges. Moreover, the landscape do not illustrate physical reality of the nature, instead they represent the landscape of the artist’s mind.

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(Kisaran, 1914 – 1986) Mega Mendung, 1978 Oil on canvas: 60 x 85 cm Signed and dated, upper left: SS.101, Mega Mendung, 1978 Literature: Amir Sidaharta, S. Sudjojono, VISIBLE SOUL, published by museum S. Sudjojono and Canna Gallery, 2006, pg. 272 Provenance: Private collection, Jakarta SGD 75.000 - 100.000 USD 55.500 - 74.000

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DEDE ERI SUPRIA (Jakarta, 1956) Show For Tourist, 2002

Oil on canvas: 100 x 70 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Dede Eri Supria, 2002 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse SGD 4.000 - 6.000 USD 2.960 - 4.440

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Born in Jakarta, January 29, 1956. He studied at the Indonesian Fine Art Academy (ASRI) in Yogyakarta (1974). In 1976 his name first emerged in the Indonesian Art Scene when he exhibited his works at the first Seni Rupa Baru Indonesia exhibition at the Balai Budaya, Jakarta. He has received several awards for his works, Jakarta Biennale 1981, won a Philip Morris Indonesian Art Awards in 1997 and was participated into the ASEAN Art Awards in Manila. He has participated in many group shows as well as solo exhibitions. Dede held his solo exhibitions at Jakarta Stock Exchange (1997) and at the Art Folio Space in Singapore (2002). Today, he is considered an influential propagator of super-realist painting in Indonesia.

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CHEN CHONG SWEE (Singapore, 1910 - 1985) Bay Between Rocks

Ink and color on paper: 68,8 x 44 cm Signed and stamped, middle right Stamped, lower left SGD 3.000 - 5.000 USD 2.220 - 3.700

Awards 1935 Cash award, King George V Silver Jubilee Art Exhibition.

1965 Meritorious Public Service Star of the Republic of Singapore.

Exhibition 1984 Chen Chong Swee Retrospective, presented jointly by the Ministry of Culture and the National Museum, Singapore.

1993 Chen Chong Swee, His Thoughts, His Art, presented by the National Museum, Singapore.

1998 Passages, selected works of Chen Chong Swee, presented by National Heritage Board, Singapore Art Museum.

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LEO ELAND

(Java, 1884 – 1952) Harvest Oil on canvas: 40 x 60 cm Signed, lower left: L. Eland SGD 5.000 - 7.000 USD 3.700 - 5.180

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Lita Cabellut Lita Cabellut lived her gypsy-childhood in Barcelona. At the age of 13, after a crucial visit at the Prado Museum wherein she was inspired by the old Spanish and Dutch Court master artists, Lita decided to become an artist. To this end she started to take classical paint technique classes four times each week taught by an established master painter. Four years later Lita's work was on exhibit at the Town Hall museum of Masnou, Barcelona. At the age of 19 she decided to leave her native country of Spain for new challenges in the Netherlands.

The artist has been exhibited throughout museums in the United States and Europe. Between 19821984 the artist studied at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. As early as the year 1988 Lita was well-established enough to earn a living solely from her artistic endeavors. Lita Cabellut is considered to be an artist with a unique pictorial language, using a contemporary variation on the frescotechnique and her own personalized 'Cabellut-palette'. Her work has been exhibited throughout museums the United States and Europe, and has been the subject of much critical acclamation.

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LITA CABELLUT

(Spain, 1961) Color of Dew 07, 2015 Mixed media on canvas: 215 x 145 cm SGD 40.000 - 50.000 USD 29.600 - 37.000

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CHOO KENG KWANG

(Singapore, 1931) River Scene with Fisherman and Boat Oil on canvas: 46 x 49 cm Signed, lower right SGD 2.000 - 4.000 USD 1.480 - 2.960

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RADUAN MAN (Pahang, 1978) White Bar, 2014

Mixed media on aluminium: 92 x 92 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Raduan man 2014 SGD 1.500 - 2.500 USD 1.110 - 1.850

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BENNY SETIAWAN (Jakarta, 1937) Offerings, 1993

Watercolor on paper: 45 x 59 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Benny 93 SGD 1.200 - 2.000 USD 890 - 1.480

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SOETOPO

(Yogyakarta, 1931- 2016) Pasar Ayam, 1970 Oil on canvas: 132 x 80 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Soetopo, 1970 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the artist SGD 6.500 - 8.000 USD 4.810 - 5.920

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HASIM

(Jakarta, 1921-1982) Gadis Bali, 1968 Oil on canvas: 60 x 45 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Hasim’68 SGD 3.000 - 5.000 USD 2.220 - 3.700

Born in Jakarta, 1921. He lived and worked in Jakarta. He is famous of producing portrait figures of woman and landscape.

His works have been in the collection of many art collectors.

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PATRICK TEO

(Singapore, 1942) Ultimate Exultation, 2017 Acrylic on canvas : 121 x 91 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Pateo 19 Sep 2017 SGD 6.000 - 8.000 USD 4.440 - 5.920

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SIEW HOCK MENG (Malaysia, 1942) Penari Bali Pria I, 1990

Colored chalk on cardboard : 65 x 50 cm Signed and dated, lower right: 1990 SGD 8.000 - 10.000 USD 5.920 - 7.400

Born in Malaysia, 1942. He finished his school from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore (1961). He used crayons and oil for his painting. He often went to Bali for his painting inspirations.

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ABDUL AZIZ

(Purwokerto, 1928 - Bali, 2002) Baris Dance, 1988 Oil on canvas: 50 x 40 cm This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from artist’s wife SGD 5.000 - 7.000 USD 3.700 - 5.180

Born in Purwokerto, March 27, 1928. He graduated from the Indonesian Fine Art Academy (ASRI) in 1959 then went to Italy to continue his study at Academia Di Belle Arti in Rome. He exhibited some works in Italy several times as well as in Jakarta, Yogyakarta and Bali. Besides being a well known for his work, Aziz is a highly accomplished violinist.

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Affandi The Indonesian community in Calcutta India was not much in number during the 1940s.

At that time the community almost entirely consists of students or trainees who receive scholarships from the Indian government. Among the students there was Affandi, a famous revolutionary painter and creator of a new painting style in Indonesia. Former students in Calcutta have gained success in their respective careers. Affandi was awarded a scholarship to study at the cultural college in Santiniketan, where the late great author Sir Rabindranath Tagore lived.

Examining the great talent that Affandi had, the college become worried about the influence of Affandi’s distinctive style, which was in contrast to the origin forms of traditional Hindu art. Therefore, in order to lessen the impact, they put great endeavored to send Affandi to different places which of course accidentally very useful to Affandi.

Before he left from Calcuta, he gave two paintings to the present owner formerly the ambassador of India at that time. One was his self-portrait when Affandi was a teenager – painted in a classic style and the other one was rather large painting showing beach scenery where the fishermen were busy fixing the nets. Several sailboats were washed ashore. Blue sky with yellowish colors, while the sea birds hovering in the air. The atmosphere on the beach looked rather gloomy, as if the storm was starting to blow.

This painting showed a typical Affandi’s character that present the strong lines of his wild finger strokes and vibrant colors.

Two months after Affandi’s living from India, in Calcutta, there was paintings exhibition from Indian painters from Benggal. Apparently there were some paintings that show the influence of Affandi’s character in style and technique. This perhaps become great concerns in Santiniketan. They could not prevent Affandi’s influence, even though they always find a way to keep Affandi in distance from other students at the college. Thus this painting become an important evidence of Affandi’s great influence in India.

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AFFANDI

(Cirebon, 1907 – 1990) Fisherman by The Sea Oil on canvas: 61 x 105 cm Signed and dated, lower right: A Provenance: Prominent collection, Jakarta, formerly the ambassador of India at that time Acquired directly from the artis SGD 80.000 - 120.000 USD 59.200 - 88.800

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JAN VAN WEERDEN (Yogyakarta, 1905) Satay Seller

Oil on canvas: 50 x 40 cm Signed, lower right: J. Van Weerden SGD 2.500 - 4.000 USD 1.850 - 2.960

Born in Yogyakarta, Java on 3 September 1905. He was taught in Indonesia by W. Russer and C. Bijl-Pfaff. The artist lived and worked in Indonesia (Bandung, Kediri, Blitar, probolinggo and All Java) until 1953. He then settled in The Hague, Painter, Watercolourist and Draughtsman of mainly Indonesian landscape, who is a member of the ‘Indische Kulture Kring’ In The Hague.

Exhibition, The Hague, Kunstzaal, May 1963.

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LUCIEN FRITS OHL

(Palembang, South Sumatra, 1904 – The Hague, 1976) Market Scene Oil on canvas: 77 x 61 cm Signed, lower right: L. Frits Ohl SGD 16.000 - 20.000 USD 11.840 - 14.800

Born in Palembang, South Sumatra, 1904. He was a self-taught painter whose works were mostly Indonesian landscape. He also produced paintings of Asian panorama. He was a painter, watercolorist, and draughtsman in the style reminiscent of the late of GP. Adolfs. He once lived in Jakarta for a long time then settled in The Hague until he died in 1976.

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MOCHTAR APIN

(Padang, 1923 – 1994) Menenun Acrylic on canvas and board: 61 x 51 cm This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the gallery Literature: PARADOKS, Mochtar Apin, pg. 83 SGD 10.000 - 15.000 USD 7.400 - 11.100

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Chen Wen Hsi Chen Wen Hsi was of the pioneering generation of artists and was key in the development of a new artistic identity and language in Singapore. Born in a small village in Guangdong Province, Chen Wen His grew up surrounded by nature. Watching the flocks of sparrows and ducks that roamed around his childhood home, he recalled that he would “watch their shape and form, their habits, their every movement, their individual and communal life.” Long hours of observation gave him the ability to paint birds and animals with an extraordinary vibrancy.

A prolific painter who worked in a range of styles, Chen won acclaim for combining Western art with Chinese brush strokes in his paintings. He was also an influential art teacher at The Chinese High School and the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) for many years. Chen was also highly skilled at finger-painting. He first learnt this skill from his teacher Pan Tianshou and his artist-friend Fu Luofei in Shanghai.

Every works he made shows examples of his profound ability to capture the “mood” and “spirit” of his environment, skillfully executed with great spontaneity through deft brush and finger strokes. Chen Wen Hsi was known to organize art classes that were attended by art teachers and expatriates keen on Chinese art. During these classes, he will paint a range of animals after studying their interactions with their environment and nature. His paintings of Chicks, Herons and Bathing Ducks showcase the artist’s ability to harmonise Chinese art techniques on distinct subjects commonly encountered in Singapore. Chen would subsequently become one of the most influential Singaporean ink painters of the 20th century.

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CHEN WEN HSI 陈文希 (Singapore, 1906 - 1991) Bathing Duck

Chinese ink on rice paper: 91.5 x 44.5 cm Signed and sealed in chinese character, upper left Sealed again lower right Provenance: Private collection, Singapore SGD 17.000 - 30.000 USD 12.580 - 22.200

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CAREL LODEWIJK DAKE, Jr (Schaerbeek, 1886 – Jakarta, 1946) Landscape Mountain Oil on board: 51 x 82 cm Signed, lower right: Cl. Dake SGD 6.500 - 8.000 USD 4.810 - 5.920

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WAN SOON KAM

(b. 1943, Singapore) Banana Plantation, 1991

Watercolor on paper: 72 x 52 cm Signed and dated, lower right: WanSoonKam 91 SGD 3.000 - 5.000 USD 2.220 - 3.700

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Ugo Untoro Born in Purbalingga, Central Java, 1970. He studied at the Indonesian Institute of Art (ISI), Yogyakarta. As an individual artist who is looking for meaning through imagery symbolism, Ugo’s scratchy paint shows his indeterminate sign and poetic upon his self consciousness. His rough scratches never recognized anything nor reach into form perfections. His horizontal lines sometimes go beyond his conscious and offer not only form but also meaningful message.

The horse has its own history in the human history. Ugo explore the image of horse as the witness of the human bloddy and paintful history. The horse has a mistery towards the human betrayal of his/her own best friend. Ugo’s horse reflects a mind set that place the horse as his way to understand reality. Ugo’s horse plays as a personification and a methapore towards reality.

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UGO UNTORO

(Purbalingga, 1970) Folding History #II, 2007 Oil on canvas: 120 x 145 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Ugo’07 SGD 7.000 - 10.000 USD 5.180 - 7.400

Awards: 1996 Finalist in the Indonesian Art Awards Competition 1998 The Best Painting at the Indonesian Art Awards

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Cheong Soo Pieng Cheong was born the youngest of seven children in Amoy, China. His parents were neutral to his choice of education, when Cheong took to studying art at in the Xiamen Academy of Fine Art in 1933. In 1936 Cheong graduated and attended Xinhua Academy of Fine Art in Shanghai for further studies, only to have his education cut short with the breakout of the Sino-Japanese War and the school destroyed by Japanese invaders in 1938.

Cheong returned to his alma mater to teach art, and pursued his painting passion in watercolours due to scarcity of oil paint materials. In 1942 Cheong held his first solo exhibition of watercolor works. In 1945 Cheong left China for Hong Kong and relocated to Singapore in late 1946 where he would be a lecturer at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts for the next 20 year. In 1955 Cheong Soo Pieng, along with five other artists Chen Wen Hsi, Chen Chong Swee, Lim Hak Tai, Tay Wee Koh, and Suri bin Mohyani were invited to showcase their artworks in England, funded by fellow artist and arts patron Ho Kok Hoe. The exhibition was officially opened by the Duchess of Kent. In 1962, the Government of Singapore awarded Cheong Soo Pieng the Meritorious Service Medal.

Cheong died on July 1, 1983 due to heart failure.

Besides painting both in the Eastern and Western techniques of Chinese ink and oils, Cheong Soo Pieng also sculpted and crafted metal installations. But it is his Nanyang-style paintings in particular that have received much attention. The techniques used are recognized as a creative blend of West and East, and the subject matter was inspired from his Southeast Asian surroundings hence the term Nanyang or South-Seas style. He was one of the first artists to paint in this theme. Inspiration for this stemmed from a Bali trip in 1952, which he embarked with three others: Liu Kang, Chen Wen Hsi and Chen Chong Swee.

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CHEONG SOO PIENG

(b. 1917, Xiamen, Fujian, China –1983, Singapore) Village, 1974 Watercolor on paper: 47 x 45.5 cm Signed and stamp in chinese character, lower left: Soo Pieng 74 Provenance: Private collection, Singapore SGD 18.000 - 30.000 USD 13.320 - 22.200

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AMAURY DUPARC (France) The Town

Oil on canvas: 30 x 40 cm Signed, lower right: A. Duparc SGD 2.000 - 3.000 USD 1.480 - 2.220

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I MADE DJIRNA (Ubud, 1957) Dua Gadis, 2004

Mixed media on canvas: 90 x 100 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Djirna, 2004 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the artist SGD 3.000 - 5.000 USD 2.220 - 3.700

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R. HADI

(b. Semarang, Central Java) Penari Bali Oil on canvas: 63 x 44 cm Signed, lower left: R. Hadi SGD 1.500 - 2.000 USD 1.110 - 1.480 134

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Born in Yogyakarta 1942. He studied at Indonesian Fine Art Academy Yogyakarta in 1958 and after graduated he teaches in that academy till this moment. His solo exhibition was held at Gothe German Institute. He participated in group exhibitions in several times besides exhibitions with “19 Pelukis Indonesia” in Singapore and Malaysia in 1967, he received the Wendy Sorenson Memorial Fund Aeard in 1977, group exhibitions in ASEAN countries (1985), solo exhibition at Melia purosari Hotel, Yogyakarta (1994), Fine Art Exhibition International Borobudur Festival in H. Widayat museum (2003).

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SUWAJI

(Yogyakarta, 1942) Prosesi di Bali, 2016 Oil on canvas: 150 x 190 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Suwaji, 016 SGD 4.500 - 6.000 USD 3.330 - 4.440

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ABDULLAH SURIOSUBROTO

(Semarang, Central Java, 1978 - 1941) Telaga Di Tengah Hutan Oil on canvas: 55 x 90 cm Signed, lower left: Abdullah SGD 2.500 - 3.500 USD 1.850 - 2.590

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PARDOLI FADLI

(Cilacap, 1971) Panen Kemakmuran-Prambanan, 2009 Oil on canvas: 150 x 200 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Pardoli 09 Signed, titled and dated on the reverse SGD 3.500 - 5.000 USD 2.590 - 3.700

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HASAN DJAAFAR

(Koto Gadang, West Sumatra, 1919 1995) Lotus dan Ilalang Oil on canvas: 89 x 140 cm Signed, lower right: Hasan Djaafar SGD 4.500 - 6.000 USD 3.330 - 4.440

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SOETOPO

(Yogyakarta, 1931 - 2016) Kerokan, 1990 Oil on canvas: 110 x 140 cm Signed and dated, lower left: Soetopo, 1990 SGD 8.000 - 9.000 USD 5.920 - 6.660

Born in Yogyakarta, April 13, 1931. He studied painting at The Indonesian Academy of Fine Arts (ASRI) Yogyakarta under Hendra Gunawan, Trubus and Soedarso tutelage. Since 1950, he was actively participated in many exhibitions and handled monumental works for Hotel Indonesia, Ambarukmo Hotel, Satu Maret Monument, Palagan Ambarawa, TMII Historical Monument Relief and Satria Mandala Museum, Jakarta. following the exhibition welcomes the Asian-African Conference in Bandung, 1955. Diversity in Harmony Exhibition in Yogyakarta, Borobudur International Festival Exhibition at the Museum H. Widayat, Mungkid, Magelang, 2002. Exhibition "Footsteps" at the Court of Djoko scream, Yogyakarta, 2003. Art Exhibition "Membaca Dunia Widayat� at Museum H.Widayat, Mungkid, Magelang, 2004.

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CHAN CHANG HOW (b.1943, Singapore) India, Bodhgaya, 2007

Watercolor on paper: 51.5 x 69.5 cm Signed, dated and stamp, lower right: Chan Chang How, 2007 India Bodhgaya SGD 2.000 - 4.000 USD 1.480 - 2.960

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LAM DUCH MANH

(Vietnam, 1972) Flower Garden by The Pond, 2011 Oil on canvas: 60 x 100 cm Signed, lower right M. Lam This lot is accompanied with certificate of authenticity from the Artist SGD 1.000 - 1.500 USD 740 - 1.110

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OTTO DJAYA

(Rangkas Bitung, West java, 1916 - 2002) Nelayan, 1994 Oil on canvas: 95 x 145 cm Signed and dated, lower right: Otto Djaya, 1994 SGD 3.000 - 5.000 USD 2.220 - 3.700

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Index Of Artist Abdul Aziz

14, 144

Gede Mahendrayasa

34

R. Hadi

156

Abdul Djalil AD Pirous

41

Gerard Pieter Adolfs

3, 29

Raduan Man

138

Abdullah Suriosubroto

158

Han Snel

109

Randy Solon

18, 36

Adrien Jean Le Mayeur De Merpres 50, 119

Hasan Djaafar

160

Reynold De La Cruz

19

Affandi

93, 145

Hasim

141

Richard Winkler

58

Agung Mangu Putra

20, 83

Huang Fong

108

Roedyat Martadiredja

9

Agus Suwage

88, 112

I Gusti Agung Wiranata 65

Rudolf Bonnet

70

Agus TBR

60

I Gusti Ketut Kobot

78

S. Sudjojono

132

Ahmad Sadali

81, 128

I Made Djirna

90, 155

Salim

117

Aleah Rose Angeles

122

Ibnu Nurwanto

67

Samsul Arifin

42, 116

Amaury Duparc

154

Ibrahim

27

Siew Hock Meng

43, 51, 143

Anak Agung Gede Sobrat

96

Irsam

8

Soedibio

80

Anton Huang

126

Jan Van Weerden

146

Soetopo

140, 161

Arie Smit

11, 82, 115

Jeihan Sukmantoro

111

Soh Siew Kiat

22

Arkiv Vilmansa

55

John Van der Sterren

21

Srihadi Soedarsono

105

Awiki

107

Jumaldi Alfi

26, 49, 69

Sudarso

44

Benny Setiawan

139

Khoo Sui Hoe

33, 87

Sunaryo

101, 129

Bestrizal Besta

15

Kiko Escora

61

Suwaji

157

Budi Ubrux

72

Koeboe Sarawan

10, 79

Suzlee Ibrahim

127

Carel Lodewijk Dake, Jr

13, 84, 150

Koeh Sia Yong

121

Tajuddin Ismail, Dato’

56

Chan Chang How

162

Lam Duch Manh

63, 163

Tang Da Wu

39, 98, 100

Chen Chong Swee

134

Lee Hock Moh

104

Tay Bak Koi

94

Chen Wen Hsi

31, 120, 125, 149

Lee Man Fong

7, 73, 106

Teng Nee Cheong

12, 25

Cheong Soo Pieng

124, 153

Leo Eland

114, 135

Tew Nai Tong

17

Choo Ai Loon

74, 103

Lim Wasim

45, 52

Thomas Yeo

23, 95

Choo Keng Kwang

110, 137

Lita Cabellut

136

Trubus Sudarsono

6, 46

Dede Eri Supria

133

Lucien Frits Ohl

5, 30, 113, 147

Ugo Untoro

32, 40, 152

Dipo Andy

130

Mahyuddin

62

Umi Dahlan

48

Djoko Pekik

28

Mat Ali Mat Som

123

Wan Soon Kam

64, 91, 151

Dr. Foo Yong Kong

76

Mochtar Apin

148

Willem Gerard Hofker 35

Entang Wiharso

89

Ong Kim Seng

92

Willem Van Der Does

4, 24, 68

Fadjar Sidik

86

Otto Djaya

16, 164

Wire Tuazon

54

Fan Chang Tien

75

Pande Ketut Taman

118

Wu Guangzhong

97

Fauzul Yusri

99

Pardoli Fadli

1, 159

Xu Wentao

71

Galam Zulkifli

47

Patrick Teo

142

Yeo Siak Goon

53

Gambiranom Suhadi

2

Popo Iskandar

57, 66

Yoon Byung Rock

38

Gatot Pudjiarto

37

Putu Sutawijaya

59, 85, 131

Zaf Chevallier

102

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